Luke Rockhold takes to the Strikeforce cage tomorrow night for a middleweight title defense against Keith Jardine. The bout represents a chance for Rockhold to continue his attempt to emerge as one of the faces of the “new Strikeforce.”
But in addition to talking about the fight with Jardine, Rockhold is also finding time to talk about the biggest story in MMA at the moment, the retirement of the UFC’s Brock Lesnar. And what Luke had to say on ESPN 1100 in Las Vegas was not particularly kind to the big man (Via Yahoo! Sports):
“Did you see him singing the rap country? When he started rapping along to the country song I was like ‘ what the hell is this guy doing?’ I almost saw his lip quivering as he was walking into the cage. He just looked like he was playing a role. He was kind of believing his own hype that people were putting in his ear. I saw true confidence out of Overeem and a true fighter,”
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“I think he brought a whole new audience to the sport. So I can’t exactly say it’s a negative. People really need to see who the true fighters are. Lesnar’s not the best in the world. He just got the right matchups and the right fights,”
Might not exactly be untrue, but ouch.