Former UFC champ Luke Rockhold has been a busy man over the last few years. From the sound of it, he won\u2019t be slowing down.<\/p>\n
Rockhold spent many years as one of the best middleweights in MMA, notably capturing the Strikeforce and UFC middleweight titles. However, he parted ways with the UFC in 2022 following a string of losses to Yoel Romero, Jan Blachowicz, and Paulo Costa.<\/p>\n
Since then, Rockhold has been trying his hand at nearly every combat sport out there. First, he stepped into the BKFC ring for a bare-knuckle clash with Mike Perry, which he lost by stoppage after having his face smashed. Then, he headed to the Karate Combat pit for a fight with former kickboxer Joe Schilling, which he won with a highlight-reel KO. From there, Rockhold returned to his grappling roots, losing a decision to Patrick Downey at the first Craig Jones Invitational event. Next, he suffered a brutal knockout loss to the boxing ring to Darren Till.<\/p>\n
Finally, and most recently, Rockhold stepped onto the mats for a wrestling match with fellow MMA star Colby Covington at last weekend\u2019s RAF card. Unfortunately for him, that outing resulted in another loss via points.<\/p>\n
The former UFC middleweight champ was somewhat quiet in the days following his loss to Covington. However, on Monday night, he released a statement addressing the loss and his future in the sport.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, he suggested his next move might be to try his hand at Power Slap, Dana White\u2019s controversial and concussive \u201cslap fighting\u201d league.<\/p>\n
He may have been joking, but he also didn\u2019t specify the remark was in jest.<\/p>\n
Luke Rockhold headed from UFC to Power Slap?<\/p>\n
\u201cCompete, challenge myself, get in shape, learn a new sport and get paid with no risk,\u201d Rockhold wrote in the caption for his post. \u201cLost a few points but had a good time. Happy to see wrestling make it to the big stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cPower slap, see you soon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
What do you think is next for Luke Rockhold after his loss on the RAF mats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC champ Luke Rockhold has been a busy man over the last few years. From the sound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-406684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}