A lot of people criticizes this rematch and calling it undeserved, but you have to take into account the situation where the division is, with Yoel Romero out of the picture(PED`s) there was no one who deserved a titleshot.
The first time I picked Weidman to win, I thought it would be a very competitive fight but Weidman would eventually impose his will and eventually would get the finish. There were things in the fight that surprised me, Rockhold was significantly bigger, Luke is a huge MW but also could have been that Weidman got trought all his camp at 190 lbs and wanted to be more lean, on fight night he was smaller than ever.
In the fight, the problem for Weidman was that he found out that his strenght (wrestling) wasn`t as effective like in all his fights, Luke could actually hang with him on the ground and he even out grappled him later on, on the feet Weidman barely did what he is very good at,measuring distances, knowing when to go in and out, having his opponet thinking if he`s going to shoot or strike, but that could have been because Luke was not worried to go to the ground, which made him to be more agressive on the feet and being able to start picking his shots, he became the "bully" and Weidman never experience that, it was new for him and he started to hesitate on his ofense. Luke was having success with his kicks and Weidman surprisingly too, Luke looked like he was feeling those kicks and start slowing down...Or it was because he was sick?? Which leaves me to my next point that intrigues me in this rematch, Luke was sick and still put on a phenomenal performance, can you imagine him 100% this time? Weidman apparently had a broken foot so who knows in what conditions they will present themselves on fight night...
