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“Weirdest fighting I have ever seen”: The fighters’ reactions to Luke Rockhold and Paulo Costa’s war. Rockhold retirement

Paulo Costa and Luke Rockhold went to war for three rounds, and Costa swept the scorecards after three rounds. Rockhold’s brave performance won the crowd over, and may have been his final.

Battered and exhausted from the end of the first round, Rockhold stayed in the octagon when his body clearly wanted otherwise, absorbing Costa’s best shots and firing back, most notably with a pair of expletives as Costa closed in for the kill in the third round.

Defiant even in the closing seconds, Rockhold gave the last of what he had – blood, and lots of it – in top position as he rubbed his plasma all over Costa’s face.

Rockhold admitted that he was no longer a champion at middleweight after many decades of being involved in the sport.

“I’m f****** old,” he said.

Here’s what fighters had to say about the UFC 278 co-main.


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