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Jacare Souza details injury, intends to ‘destroy’ Rockhold vs. Bisping winner
- Updated: May 18, 2016
When Chris Weidman was forced out of his title fight with Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, naturally everyone looked in the direction of Ronaldo Souza when a replacement was needed. He was coming off a dominating win at UFC 198 over Vitor Belfort, and didn’t appear to be injured. Unfortunately though, the latter was not the case – Jacare actually came into the bout with a hurt knee.
He gutted it out to be beat Belfort, but Souza detailed in a release why he was unable to take the Rockhold fight, which eventually went to Michael Bisping (via MMA Fighting):
“I got an offer from the UFC to replace injured Chris Weidman in a middleweight title fight at UFC 199, on June 4, against Luke Rockhold, the current champion. Everybody knows my desire to fight for the title and, if …
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