Luke Rockhold was the former Strikeforce champion, who stumbled in his UFC debut against Vitor Belfort . Costas Philippou was rocketing up the UFC middleweight ranks, on the brink of a title shot, before he fell to fellow rising star Francis Carmont. One of them had to get back on track with a stellar performance at UFC Fight Night 35 on Wednesday night at The Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga. And it was Rockhold that did just that. After a couple minutes of doing the “where’s this going” dance, Rockhold landing a right hand and Philippou answering, the former Strikeforce champ went to work, and once he did, it didn’t take long to bring things to a conclusion.
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