Romero vs Rockhold

Who won Romero vs Rockhold?

Yoel Romero beat Luke Rockhold by knockout in the 3rd round during the main event of UFC 221, on Saturday 10th February 2018 at Perth Arena in Perth.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 185 pounds (13.2 stone or 83.9 KG).

Romero vs Rockhold stats

Yoel Romero stepped into the octagon with a record of 12 wins, 2 losses and 0 draws, 10 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Luke Rockhold made his way to the cage with a record of 16 wins, 3 losses and 0 draws, 6 of those wins coming by knock out and 8 by submission.

Yoel Romero's UFC record stood at 9-4-0, while Luke Rockhold's came in at 6-5-0.

The stats suggested Romero had a massive power advantage over Rockhold, boasting a 83% knock out percentage over Rockhold's 38%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Rockhold had a massive advantage over Romero, boasting a 50% submission rate over Romero's 0%.

Yoel Romero was the older man by 8 years, at 48 years old.

Rockhold had a height advantage of 3 inches over Romero. That also extended to a 3-inch reach advantage.

Romero was arguably the less experienced fighter, having had 5 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2009, 2 years and 4 months later than Rockhold, whose first professional fight was in 2007. He had fought 27 more professional rounds, 68 to Rockhold's 41.

Romero vs Rockhold form

Yoel Romero had stopped 2 of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Vadim Nemkov at Bellator 297 on 16th June 2023 by unanimous decision in their Bellator Light Heavyweight championship fight at Wintrust Arena, Chicago, United States.

Previous to that, he had won against Melvin Manhoef at Bellator 285 on 23rd September 2022 by knockout in the 3rd round at 3Arena Dublin, Dublin, United Kingdom.

Going into that contest, he had beaten Alex Polizzi at Bellator 280 on 6th May 2022 by knockout in the 3rd round at Accor Arena, Paris, France.

Before that, he had been beaten by Phil Davis at Bellator 266 on 18th September 2021 by split decision in their 3 round contest at SAP Center, San Jose, United States.

He had been defeated by Israel Adesanya at UFC 248 on 7th March 2020 by unanimous decision in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.

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Romero's last 5 fights had come over a period of 5 years, 3 months and 20 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year and 22 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 19 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3.8 rounds on average.

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