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Luke Rockhold Showed Nothing Of Note By Stopping Keith Jardine

Posted in Boxing classes | January 8th, 2012

The large doubt entrance into “Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine” was about Luke Rockhold’s ability to quarrel during a high level. An dissapoint win over Ronaldo Souza cumulative him a Strikeforce middleweight pretension and seemed to infer that all a hype behind him before a large damage layoff was for real. Souza was ranked by many as a tip 5 warrior in a multiplication and was ostensible to travel by Rockhold. Rockhold would take it to a champion and take divided his belt after 5 tough rounds. It was a estimable feat though left him in a unsafe position. With Souza out of his sights for a rematch in a evident future, who was next? And with a win over UFC chasm Keith Jardine, who clearly “earned” his pretension quarrel with a pull opposite former light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi, one thing still stays unsettled about Rockhold.

Is he as good as his win over Souza seemed to make him?

It’s identical to what Gilbert Melendez went by after winning Jorge Masvidal a brief while ago. Rockhold got a peculiarity feat over an competition with a name, though not most of a record recently, though it doesn’t meant a whole lot. Why? Because Jardine is a cleared adult warrior good over his rise days of violence former UFC light heavyweight champions Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin. And during this indicate Rockhold’s hurdles are still an classification divided in a UFC instead of in Strikeforce.

Rockhold stopped Jardine, something that’s not an easy charge to accomplish, though it was a sincerely rival round. Rockhold was winning though we could make a box for Jardine to have taken a belligerent adult until a flurry that stopped a “Ultimate Fighter” expel member. It’s a good plume in his tip and copiousness of fans who had never listened of Rockhold who tuned in during Showtime’s giveaway weekend since of Jardine did get introduced to a intensity star, though it didn’t uncover us anything special. Rockhold didn’t demeanour like a Top Five middleweight his teammates had been hyping him as during a week.

He looks like a really gifted prospect, one who could plea for a UFC middleweight pretension in a integrate years and half dozen and fights in a contingent post Anderson Silva epoch for a division. The quarrel did zero for him career correct and instead showcased how small abyss there is to Strikeforce in ubiquitous during this point. It’s a good win though we’re still during a same indicate we were beforehand.

At this indicate Jardine strictly looks cleared up, entering a Jens Pulver form epoch of his career where he ought to be looking closer towards timid instead of angling for one final possibility during removing to a top. Defeating that man doesn’t do most for someone like Rockhold. He showed zero in this quarrel that says he could compare adult with a chosen of a middleweight multiplication in a UFC right now. Michael Bisping, Yushin Okami, Vitor Belfort and Chael Sonnen would take his lunch income right now formed on what he showed opposite Jardine. There’s no one he could be adored opposite from a tip of a UFC right now, either, formed on what he showed Saturday night. It would be tough to preference him opposite Hector Lombard of Bellator, either.