Watch UFC Fight Night 116 headliner David Branch drop 8 F-bombs on Luke Rockhold in 28 seconds

Social media is fun, right?

Not long after former middleweight champion Luke Rockhold made a Skype appearance on “The MMA Hour” with host Ariel Helwani in which he questioned the sense of David Branch getting in the cage with him in the UFC Fight Night 116 main event, Branch responded on Twitter.

And in just 28 seconds, the former two-division WSOF champ unleashed a profanity-laden masterpiece from what appeared to be a barber’s chair, wearing an apron, beanie and sunglasses. The result was eight F-bombs – in varying forms.

“Yo, Lucas, man – the (expletive) is you talkin’, man? Huh? I heard your little punk-ass (expletive) interview on Ariel Helwani. Hmm? Mother(expletive), what the (expletive) is you talkin’ ’bout, man? I ain’t lost a fight in five mother(expletive) years. You can’t box, and you ain’t got no (expletive) chin. You gettin’ in a mother(expletive) cage with me? You stupid? Man, you cold frontin, man. I’m gonna beat you like you stole somethin’. Watch what I do to this mother(expletive).”

Rockhold (15-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Branch (21-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) headline UFC Fight Night 116, which takes place Sept. 16 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The card airs on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Rockhold will be fighting for the first time since losing the middleweight title to Michael Bisping at UFC 199 in one of the biggest upsets of 2016. Branch returned to the UFC in May after going 12-1 outside the promotion since his first stint, including middleweight and light heavyweight titles for WSOF. He took a split decision from Krzysztof Jotko at UFC 211.

But now it seems things are going to ramp up for him quite significantly from the Jotko level – both in the area of pre-fight talk, and the level of competition across from him in the cage.

Check out Branch’s response to Rockhold above.

For more on UFC Fight Night 116, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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