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Rockhold: Tiny Belfort has a chicken neck now

Australia’s ever awesome Submission Radio put out a call – “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” Luke Rockhold answered.

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Chris Palmquist
August 12, 2014 · 3 min read
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Australia’s ever awesome Submission Radio put out a call – “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” UFC middleweight Luke Rockhold answered.

On the Jones vs. Cormier brawl.

“That’s DC. He’s a drama queen, so I expect that to happen. He’s gotten pretty damn touchy at a lot of his weigh ins. You see him when he got Pat Cummins he pushed Pat Cummins, that other time too, probably more. He likes the attention and he knows how to sell a fight, so I think that was a good move I guess.

“I’m all for it. I mean we’re, fighting this is our job, this is what people pay to see and s— talk and all that commotion, you know before fights, that just sells it even harder, you know what I mean? It’s like, you get slapped on the wrist, take your whatever, fine that’s gonna be, you know twenty, thirty thousand, who cares. Your gonna make hundreds of thousands of more dollars for that fight. That’s gonna build that pay per view, you sell that much more.

On Wand.

He did an interview a while back and I was just laughing at it. ‘Cause, I mean the guy, he literally ran out the back door from the test, and then you know. He ran out the door, he’s now testing himself in Brazil, says he’s clean, and wants to fight me in Brazil. I was like ‘huh? What? Does any of that makes sense?’. I’m like nah.”

“I respect Wanderlei as a fighter, but man the sport needs to be cleaned up, and I’d definitely be into a fight with him in the states. I’m not going back to Brazil, there’s just too many shady things going down over there.

On Bisping.

“The guy is out of his mind. Like he’s, I think his losing it a little bit, I don’t know. He’s saying that I’m looking for attention and all these things. All I’ve ever done, ALL I’ve ever done is respond to Michael Bisping’s s— talk. Everything that steams from him originally claiming that he was the unofficial Stirkeforce champion, talking about a sparring session we had. There’s just laughable things man. The guys a piece of work.”

I’m almost starting to feel bad for him. He’s like got his son defending now too, it’s funny stuff. You know it’s just, yeah. I’m pretty much done with him. I don’t think his gonna get past Cung Le either.

On Belfort

“He’s not even on this planet. Nothing makes sense that comes out of his mouth, and his whole life is a lie. I have fun, yeah. People wanna call me a ‘Playboy’, I like to enjoy myself. I’m young, I’m single, traveling the world and having a good time, but you know I handle business when it’s time. Yeah, I wanna fight Vitor, more than anything.

On Belfort being cleared, and for a title shot.

I don’t get it. I don’t get how you get caught for steroids and get the title shot, getting a license and all that. Whatever, I don’t know. He looks tiny now have you seen him?

On Belfort’s lack of TRT hurting his performance.

“He looks tiny! I don’t know how he’s gonna keep the weight on, ’cause he was on UFC on Fox, man the guy looked tiny. He literally looked like a small welterweight.

“He’s gonna be a lot different fighter, you know. Who knows what he’s gonna be like, but I just don’t think he’s gonna have much for Weidman. He looks old and he looks like he’s got a chicken neck now, so I don’t know.

On fighting Belfort if Belfort beats Weidman.

That’s a perfect world right there. It would be awesome and we would really sell the fight, ’cause there’s a couple of people I can shit about. I don’t really like to talk shit about a lot of people, but there’s a few people. There’s Bisping and Vitor are definitely my targets, and I would sell the shit out of that fight, and then I would beat the shit out of them too.

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