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Luke Rockhold cut and defeated by Nick Rodriguez in Polaris 12 grappling match

Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold might think he’s done with MMA, at least for now, but he wanted to keep the competitive juices flowing. So he agreed to a 230-pound catchweight no-gi grappling match with up-and-comer Nick Rodriguez in the headliner of Polaris 12.

It didn’t go so well for Rockhold.

The two men didn’t exactly create magic over the course of the 15-minute bout. There was a lot of clinching and not a lot of action. Rockhold was cut by a clash of heads early, a relatively rare occurrence in grappling. But after asking for some vaseline for the cut, the bout continued.