In the lead up to UFC 278, Luke Rockhold railed against the UFC pay and bonus structures. Those who thought the former UFC middleweight champion wouldn’t have that same energy when he sat down at the dais for media day for Saturday’s ESPN+ streaming PPV fight card might have been surprised with what Rockhold had to say on Wednesday.
Rockhold opened his time with the assembled media by taking the branded Monster Energy Drink bottle from the table in front of him and moved it to the floor. He then caught everyone up on what he’d been up to in his life and fighting career since his last appearance in the UFC in 2019 (a light heavyweight loss to Jan Blachowicz).