Paulo Costa and Luke Rockhold will have to wait a little longer to settle their grudge.
MMA Fighting has confirmed that middleweight competitors will now “most likely” fight at an Aug. 20 UFC Event with a still-to-be determined location. They were originally scheduled to face at UFC 277 July 30.. The reason for the change is not yet known, but Rockhold (16-5) recently told The Schmo that Costa’s camp was attempting to delay the fight.
“Paulo Costa is pathetic and the kid needs to sign the contract and agree to the weight, agree to the fight, agree to the date, agree to the dance and [blows a kiss] let’s go,” Rockhold said, according to Bloody Elbow. “There’s always been questions. It was July 2. It was July 30, and this b **** wants to make it f ****** august. I’m sick [and] I’m tired of just f******… this s***. “
I want to defeat that f *****’s s***, so let’s go to August.
This is Rockhold’s debut fight since his defeat to Jan Blachowicz, a lightweight heavyweight in July 2019.. Three of the four previous fights he lost to Rockhold, a former UFC middleweight champion and Strikeforce middleweight champion.
Costa (13-2) is coming off of consecutive losses to Marvin Vettori and Israel Adesanya. He won his first five UFC fights before falling to Adesanya at in a middleweight championship bout at UFC 253.
Damon Martin and Guilherme Cruz contributed to this report.
