Keith Jardine fights Luke Rockhold for Strikeforce Middleweight title in 2012 – MMA News
The 36-year old Keith Jardine from Montana, USA is on a lucky street. According news reports coming in from the mixed martial arts (MMA) community, Jardine will get a title shot next year. He will meet Luke Rockhold for the Strikeforce
Middleweight Championship on January 7, 2012. The event will be hosted and produced by Strikeforce scheduled to take place in Las Vegas.
Confirmed reports have come in that Keith Jardine will be taking part in the Strikeforce event to be held next year in January. Many MMA fans and devotees of the combat sport have shown their shock over the fact that Jardine would
be part of the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship in 2012.
His opponent would be the 27-year old American MMA fighter Luke Rockhold. Rockhold won his Strikeforce Middleweight Championship in September 2011 by defeating Ronaldo Souza at the Strikeforce World Grand Prix event, held in
Ohio, USA.
With a long track-record of making unusual matchups, Strikeforce has again surprised the MMA fans by putting Jardine against Rockhold in a title bout. Jardine, who was on the verge of leaving the MMA after his embarrassing run
with the UFC, will get a new lease on life if he can manage to score a win over Rockhold and become the new Strikeforce Middleweight Champion.
Jardine made his debut in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in November 2005 at The Ultimate Fighter 2 Finale event against Kerry Schall. He did win his debut bout but his future with the UFC would become uncertain later
in his career. He did not perform well while he was fighting for the UFC. He lost to Stephan Bonnar at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 4 in April 2006 and then faced a humiliating first round knockout defeat to Houston Alexander at UFC 71.
He lost in the forty-eighth second. From 2007 to 2010 he could only win two bouts in the UFC and lost six of them. He won his fight against Chuck Liddell at UFC 76 in September 2007 and later against Brandon Vera at UFC 89 in October
2008. For Jardine, his loses at the UFC was keeping him behind other fighters. The UFC officials were also unhappy with how Jardine was performing. His back-to-back defeats were having a toll on the UFC’s image in the MMA circuit.
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