Luke Rockhold will look to take his strong grappling skills to the jiu-jitsu world. Rockhold faces ADCC silver medalist Nick Rodriguez in the main event of Polaris 12 on Saturday and thinks that physically, he’ll be able to match Rodriguez in the grappling department. “He seems to bully guys around with his wrestling and his decent high-school wrestling, which doesn’t mean too much when it comes down to when you wrestle with the big boys,” Rockhold said in a recent interview with Submission Radio . “I mean, he’s a good wrestler for jiu-jitsu. I think he’ll find that I’ll be able to push him there. I’ll be able to get takedowns if I need them

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Luke Rockhold believes he can physically match Nick Rodriguez at Polaris 12 – MMA Junkie

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