With Yoel Romero facing a two-year ban and Jacare Silva booked to fight Vitor Belfort at UFC 198, few options were available to the UFC. Yet this is still the best fight at 185 they can put on. Chris Weidman has claimed he was only at 25% health going into his title defence against Luke Rockhold last year. We know Rockhold was dealing with his own injury issues as well. Hopefully both fighters will be fit for the rematch.
Not a fan of instant rematches but when you look at this list, keeping in mind that Souza/Belfort and Silva/Bisping are booked, I don't know what else the UFC might've done. MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion : Luke Rockhold 1 Chris Weidman 2 Jacare Souza 3 Vitor Belfort 4 Lyoto Machida 5 Anderson Silva 6 Tim Kennedy 7 Michael Bisping 8 Robert Whittaker 9 Gegard Mousasi 10 Thales Leites 11 Uriah Hall 12 Derek Brunson 13 Rafael Natal 14 Dan Henderson 15 Roan Carneiro
