I'm not sure when he declined the Rockhold fight, possibly before Burns?How this change anything??? Dude even declined fight vs Rockhold, like come on... He is worldclass fighter but dude is A class clown for his behavior. He would have achiev so much more if he stayed fully loyal to AllStars and Gustafsson...but dirty money and fake hype is more to him than loyality..
BTW Thank you for correcting me with Leon. U were right, Leon pulled from first scheduled fight, Chimaev pulled from next two...
Makes sense, since he was focusing on WW, even though he likely could have whooped Luke easily enough.
Also not sure if it was officially offered, or if it was just something Luke said on Twitter.
Actually his team at All stars seemed to be partly to blame for his weight miss and overtraining, which led to illness and pullouts.
His coach said he knew Khamzat was a few pounds heavier than usual, and that they were offered the fight on 5 weeks or so notice, and "didn't want the camp to only be about making weight".
When he did a lot of his last camp with the Russian Olympic wrestling team, he had no issues with illness or weight, and spoke about taking recovery more serious than before.