Luke Rockhold prepares to throw down beneath Queensberry Guidelines this weekend with a former UFC title challenger and one among Rockhold’s previous MMA opponents has weighed in on that struggle. Rockhold vs. Until will see the 2 males headline Misfits Boxing 22 on August thirtieth, with each vying for the MFB bridgerweight title this Saturday.
Keith Jardine appeared on Bowks Speaking Bouts not too long ago to debate the expertise of writing and directing his personal movie ‘Kill Me Once more’ and pertaining to some large moments from his days as an MMA fighter. A kind of notable moments from his profession as a blended martial artist was when he fought eventual UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold beneath a promotional banner Rockhold additionally held a middleweight strap beneath, Strikeforce.
When giving his overview of this Rockhold versus Until boxing contest, Jardine stated,
I noticed Darren Till when he fought ‘Cowboy [Donald Cerrone]. I used to be there as a result of Jodie [Esquibel] was combating. I don’t know the way good he’s. I do know Rockhhold is tremendous, tremendous sharp and has nice precision. Like he’s suited properly for boxing. He’s a hell of an athlete, and he’s not going to get drained. That type of factor.”
Luke Rockhold and the story of his Keith Jardine struggle
Luke Rockhold and Keith Jardine did battle on January seventh, 2012, in a contest that the latter said he didn’t bear in mind. ‘The Dean of Imply’ talked about this in the identical BTB interview referenced above, the place he described the pursuit of slicing all the way down to 185 kilos as one of many dumbest issues that Jardine has ever executed.
Jardine felt like it will revitalize his profession as somebody who battled a who’s who of light heavyweights and felt a transfer to middleweight would open up a recent crop of potential matchups for him. However slicing the burden made him ‘get previous actual fast’ to make use of Jardine’s operative wording, and the Rockhold conflict was finally his penultimate struggle in MMA.
Keith Jardine was contending for the Strikeforce middleweight title then held by Luke Rockhold however the latter would find yourself dispatching the UFC veteran within the waning seconds of the bout’s opening stanza with a torrent of strikes.
