{"id":373892,"date":"2025-12-26T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373892\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:05:07","slug":"hes-just-sleep-fighting-these-days-luke-rockhold-reacts-to-tyron-woodleys-knockout-loss-to-anderson-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373892\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s just sleep fighting these days\u2019: Luke Rockhold reacts to Tyron Woodley\u2019s knockout loss to Anderson Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC champ Luke Rockhold didn\u2019t think it would go very well for Tyron Woodley in the boxing ring against Anderson Silva this past Friday, and he was right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The former welterweight champion competed for the first time since getting brutally knocked out by Jake Paul in their rematch in December 2021, taking the fight against Silva on short notice after an injury scratched Chris Weidman from the Paul vs. Joshua boxing event. Silva finished Woodley in the second round after the latter\u2019s corner wisely called it off after Silva had Woodley badly hurt after a combination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rockhold was asked about Woodley\u2019s performance, and although he\u2019s friends with his fellow former UFC champ, Rockhold gave an honest assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat was what I thought it would be,\u201d Rockhold told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ih8IuSKukQ8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submission Radio<\/a>. \u201cTyron\u2019s not there to fight anymore. He\u2019s not really conscious in fighting. Tyron\u2019s still my boy but he\u2019s just sleep fighting these days, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou have to be able to consciously see punches and throw punches, and he\u2019s just not there in live anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Woodley has now lost seven straight combat sports bouts. The most recent victory for \u201cThe Chosen One\u201d took place while he was UFC champ, stopping Darren Till at UFC 228 in September 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC champ Luke Rockhold didn\u2019t think it would go very well for Tyron Woodley in the boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-373892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}