Current UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold defeated Chris Weidman to win the title. Much of the damage came from Rockhold raining down short elbows and punches from the mounted position in the third and fourth rounds.

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That’s what newly crowned UFC middleweight champion wrote on Facebook along with a video of him having his elbow drained. The amount of fluid pulled is quite impressive and equally disgusting.

A doctor commented on Rockhold’s Facebook post about the elbow draining with this message: “This is Olecranon bursitis (inflamed elbow bursa) with a hematoma (pooled blood). Thanks to those vicious elbows to Chris Weidman’s face. The doctor is just draining the blood here!”

Rockhold became the seventh UFC middleweight champion, knocking out Chris Weidman at 3:12 of the fourth round via strikes on the ground. The 185-pound title fight co-headlined UFC 194 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Referee Herb Dean nearly called off the fight in the third round, when Rockhold moved to full mount and devastated Weidman with elbows from the top. Weidman defended himself just enough to make it to the end of the round, but it was clear he had little left coming out of the break. Rockhold had his way from there.

“I was hoping Herb Dean would stop it.” Rockhold said about the end of the third round. “He kind of stopped it at the end so I wasn’t exactly sure, so I sucked it up and had to go another round. All I know is I got the belt and I got the ‘W’.”

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Posted by Luke Rockhold on Tuesday, January 12, 2016

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Weidman landed 62 strikes of 92 attempted, while Rockhold landed 161 of 229, according to immediate cageside stats by Fightmetric.

Rockhold, a former two-time defending champion in Strikeforce who fights out of American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California, came into the fight a small underdog.