Midnight Mania! Dana White slams Luke Rockhold for ‘absolute bulls—t’ complaints, promises UFC fighters receive ‘unbelievable healthcare’

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Luke Rockhold made some waves this week. The previous Middleweight champion is seeking to return to the title combine at 185 lbs., however he doesn’t feel the same pressure as most of his friends. He’s already held the belt as soon as, and he’s made it clear he’s focused on getting it again or leaving the sport completely.

As such, Rockhold was greater than keen to drop a mega rant about all of the unfavorable adjustments to the UFC for the reason that firm was bought to WME-IMG in 2016. He argued for higher pay and bonuses, however Rockhold additionally talked about struggle well being care and the wear-and-tear athletes undergo.

UFC President Dana White wasn’t impressed. Talking with TSN, White assured the world that, “whereas they’re preventing right here, these guys are very nicely taken care of, and so is Luke Rockhold.” The ex-champion has been by means of quite a lot of critical accidents, together with an MCL tear and spinal issues, however White promised UFC lined these payments.

“Luke Rockhold was above and past taken care of with the problems that he had right here,” White continued (through MMAJunkie). “I don’t give a s—t what medical health insurance plan you’ve got, they might have by no means lined the issues that we lined for Luke Rockhold when he was going by means of his stuff. All the things he stated was absolute f—king gibberish and absolute bulls—t.”

White has expressed curiosity beforehand in offering long run healthcare, however there stays no timeline for such a program. As an alternative, White emphasised that the present protection is superb.

“Everyone who fights right here will get unbelievable healthcare,” White stated. “Unbelievable healthcare. I imply, we don’t even sew folks up with common medical doctors. If it’s dangerous sufficient, we ship them to plastic surgeons to get sewn up.”

Luke Rockhold will scrap with Paulo Costa this Saturday (Aug. 20, 2022) at UFC 278.

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BLOCKBUSTER WELTERWEIGHT REMATCH! Final Combating Championship (UFC) returns to Vivint Enviornment in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, on Sat., Aug. 20, 2022, for the primary time in additional than 5 years, headlined by a blockbuster Welterweight championship bout that can see Kamaru Usman run it again with No. 2-ranked contender, Leon Edwards. In UFC 278’s pay-per-view (PPV) co-main occasion, No. 4-seeded Middleweight contender, Paulo Costa, goals to spoil the return of former 185-pound champion, Luke Rockhold. And final however not least, former Featherweight champion and all-time nice, Jose Aldo, returns to Bantamweight motion, too!

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Israel Adesanya is placing some dough on Jose Aldo! I don’t know if anybody cares, however have been I to wager tomorrow, I like the percentages on each Aldo and Leon Edwards.

Marcelo Rojo has enjoyable Muay Thai, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how he performs at 145-pounds.

Julia Avila displays on the character of being a UFC fighter who isn’t among the many prime stars.

Fighter pay is nice when you’ve got a struggle; I had 9 cancelled fights one yr and since my harm 2021, I needed to get a job to make ends meet and have insurance coverage to cowl my being pregnant. I like being part of the UFC, it’s a dream come true. However it’s a non permanent dream.

— Julia Avila (@RagingPandaMMA) August 18, 2022

I like being within the UFC. I like preventing for the followers and placing on a present, but it surely’s a canine and pony present. I’m simply as replaceable as anybody else on the roster and followers shall be none the wiser. That’s the toughest capsule to swallow.

— Julia Avila (@RagingPandaMMA) August 18, 2022

“Rocky” has slick elbows, assume they make an look reverse Kamaru Usman?

Luke Rockhold messing together with his coach, Jason Parillo, is fairly humorous.

Two huge throws!

Darren Until and Khamzat Chimaev’s relationship is a full on brotherhood.

Slips, rips, and KO clips

As an “Ice Chilly” fan, this knockout all the time makes me unhappy.

Cro Cop beating Igor, felt like a passing of the torch. There was a brand new king of violence on the town and his title was Mirko Filipovic.pic.twitter.com/HPugyacqV4

— Cerebral Vigilante (@Delisketo) August 18, 2022

Strikeforce is beneath appreciated. The hexagon held some nice fights and nice athletes!

Thanks, I hate it.