Yoel Romero defeats Luke Rockhold via KO in the third round. In the first round, Luke Rockhold was doing everything right, as he picked up the finer points from Romero’s fight with Whittaker. Luke kept on landing those leg kicks and body kicks to soften up Romero. Rockhold kept on pushing the pace without giving much room to Romero who could explode any time. Romero changed things up in the second and charged up putting Luke on the back foot. He landed some clean shots but Luke managed to get out of danger zone. As the rounds progressed, Romero sensed the urgency to finish the fight quickly and landed a double jab and a overhand left as Luke was moving back. A clean KO at 1:48 secs of the third round.
Romero charges at Rockhold with punches across the Octagon! @YoelRomeroMMA coming out swinging in round 2! #UFC221 pic.twitter.com/J4w5kQpRvB
— UFC (@ufc) February 11, 2018
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