Luke Rockhold after Yoel Romero missed weight for UFC 221: 'Typical'

Luke Rockhold had some choice words for Yoel Romero after his UFC 221 opponent missed weight on his first attempt.

“Typical. Par for the course with Yoel Romero.”

That’s what Rockhold (16-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC), who meets Romero (12-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 221 pay-per-view headliner, told FS1’s Megan Olivi after his opponent ccame in at 186 pounds on his first attempt at the official weigh-ins. Romero had two hours to make the 185-pound limit for his interim middleweight title fight or risked losing the title stakes for himself.

Here’s the scene (via Twitter):

“He doesn’t have the cleanest track record,” Rockhold added while speaking to FS1.

Romero had never formally missed weight for a UFC fight, though he served a six-month suspension for a failed drug test that was determined to be due to a contaminated supplement.

The UFC 221 fight, which takes at Perth Arena in Australia, will determine a No. 1 contender for injured/ill champion Robert Whittaker. After Romero missed weight, Rockhold suggested he’ll claim the victory.

“That’s all he knows – wrestling,” he said. “I wrestled. I know wrestling. I know jiu-jitsu. Wrestlers like that with explosion? Bring it. This is a different world. This is MMA, and I own the ground. I own the MMA ground.”

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