Long before Luke Rockhold was booked to fight Paulo Costa at UFC 277, the former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion was offered a fight with Khamzat Chimaev.
Khamzat allegedly turned him down twice, though, and as disappointed as Rockhold was initially, the UFC veteran thinks ‘Borz’ ultimately made the right move.
“Khamzat didn’t take the fight, by the way, we were set to fight. He wanted to stay at 170. I think that was a wise move for him at this point,” Rockhold told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto in a recent interview (h/t BJPenn.com).