“I was burnt out”- Luke Rockhold opens up about contemplating retirement from fighting
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Luke Rockhold opens about his career in MMA
Luke Rockhold was never going to return to professional fighting at one point. The middleweight fighter sits down with his former teammate Daniel Cormier and talks about his lowest moments in the sport.
Former UFC champion Luke Rockhold is all set to return to the octagon after a long hiatus of two years. The fighter is back to his former gym and is confident about his return at UFC 277 against Paulo Costa. The middleweight legend sits down with his teammate, and friend, Daniel Cormier to talk about his return and what took so long for the fighter to get back into the octagon.
“I did step away from the game, you know,” said Luke talking about his hiatus with Cormier. Rockhold sat down with the former double champ for the latest episode of The DC Check-In on YouTube. “It gets old, it gets stale. It is hard in the game, you know. Every day getting up, getting into the gym, you know how it is.”
Luke Rockhold suggests that his two-year break mainly came from the fact that he couldn’t do anything in his personal life. Luke has met with a ton of injuries in recent times and has also not had the best time in the octagon. Rockhold’s last two bouts are devastating knockouts against Yoel Romero and Jan Blachowicz.
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“I needed time for my own life to go out and do things. Because you are always recovering from a training camp and you have another fight near the horizon,” said Luke Rockhold talking to Cormier. “You can’t go and live your life and go do the things you wanna do. You just need some time to live. I just got burnt out.”
Rockhold is a student of the American Kickboxing Academy (AKA gym) in San Jose, California. He was one of the champions in the gym that had Cain Velasquez, Daniel Cormier, and Khabib Nurmagomedov. The middleweight fighter has outlasted the rest of his team career-wise as he remains to be the only active fighter out of the four. Luke believes this also is one of the reasons for his low moments in his career as the gym didn’t have the same energy as the four training together.
Luke is back at the American Kickboxing Academy after training in Florida with Henri Hooft for some time. Do you think this could spark a change in the career of the former middleweight champ?
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