With this being the second time that Luke Rockhold has pulled out of a fight with Lorenz Larkin, its understandable to hear that Larkin’s camp is upset about the whole situation. Actually upset would be an understatement, as Larkin’s manager Arnold DeWitt is already speaking to the media about how unprofessional the whole thing is on the part of Rockhold. The man has a point, Rockhold has been nursing a sprained wrist for quite sometime now, but injuries are a part of daily life in MMA. No matter what happens now, Dewitt says the Rockhold fight has to happen.
Dewitt told MMADiehards:
At this point we’re highly frustrated. We were prepared to fight Luke Rockhold for the title regardless of what’s going to happen with Strikeforce after January 12th. We’ve been prepared both times and this is just totally unprofessional.
If you receive a bout agreement and can’t fight you should say something right away. He’s putting a lot of pressure on matchmakers because they’re trying to put on this final card. What are you doing to Zuffa when you’re pulling out and they’re spending weeks on promoting the fight? Now they have to find a replacement fight and he needs to fight. When you think about it he hasn’t fought in six months. So it’s not only about fighting for a title but also from a financial standpoint. It’s frustrating. You signed to fight; you signed a bout agreement so let’s fight.
I don’t think it’s going to hurt us. We want to fight – we didn’t get who we wanted- but we want to fight. Whether they put in a replacement or whatever, we don’t get the fight we want. We wanted to go out with a bang and to fight for a title. If they put in a replacement it’s highly disappointing and not motivating in any way. At this point we have to sit down and see what they throw at us and take it from there. To me, unless we’re fighting Luke, nothing makes sense. If he won’t fight us in Strikeforce we want to fight him in the UFC. He’s got to fight us some way, somehow.
PHOTO CREDIT – STRIKEFORCE
Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold faces Lorenz Larkin on January 12
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Well i saw Luke Last interview and they asked him about his wrist. But he said he agreed to fight Lorenz. It was because he thought his wrist would be well by then. OK why did he agree for the second time. Someone is lying somewhere. And this comment for king mo. You are going back and forth with both of my son. You need to recreate your image form the steroids. Because no 1 trust you anymore because all of your fight you had help steroids. SO get out of luke ass and focus on your. Dont be mad at Lorenz because you open your big mouth and called her a bitch. You are older than both of my son you should no better. LORENZ AND MONSOON MOM!!!!!!! LET IT GO MO LET IT GO.
no way he ducking anyone… its just the fight is worth more in the octagon
unprofessional is an understatement
hard to say Rockhold is ducking him, but its not easy to say he is not either
id be mad as hell too… camp isnt free!