“I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.”

American former mixed martial artist

Luke Skyler Rockhold is an American former mixed martial artist from the modern era of combat sports. He is known for competing in major promotions and for holding the UFC Middleweight Championship. Rockhold also fought in Strikeforce, where he became the final Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before that promotion merged with the UFC. He later signed with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship and Karate Combat, extending a career associated with middleweight competition at the highest level.