Nyligen meddelades det att Vitor Belfort kommer att få sin chans på mellanviktsmästaren Chris Weidman, då de möts under UFC 181 den 6 december i Las Vegas. En som inte tycker Belfort är värd att möta titelhållaren är Luke Rockhold, som hade följande att säga via ”MMAJunkie”:
Yeah, (the NSAC was too easy on him). You get guys like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong, and these guys get erased from the record books and never come back to the sport. They’re gone; they’re forgotten. Then you got guys like Vitor Belfort that get slapped on the wrist and rewarded with a title shot. It’s a joke in my mind.
He got caught early for steroids in Nevada, got popped after this whole stint in Brazil. I owned up, I took my loss, no excuses. But then he comes back, and the one time he tries to fight in the States, he fails the test. That right there, I’ve got no respect from him.
I knew who he was way before (I fought him in Brazil). I knew when he was 18 and came in as a heavyweight in the UFC. The guy’s been…it’s obvious. Anybody who knows the sport and understands it, they know what he’s been doing his whole career, from the start.
I dagsläget inväntar Luke en matchning som kan ta honom närmare en titelmatch, och senast vi såg Rockhold besegrade han Tim Boetsch via submission under UFC 172.
