SALT LAKE CITY – Paulo Costa didn’t appreciate Luke Rockhold smearing blood all over his face to end their wild fight this past Saturday.
The former middleweight title challenger left UFC 278 a bloody mess, but it wasn’t his own blood. In the final seconds of the co-main event in Salt Lake City, Rockhold (16-6 MMA, 6-5 UFC) reversed a position on the ground and ended up on top of Costa (14-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC). It was then that Rockhold decided to purposely cover Costa’s face with blood leaking from his nose. It was a graphic scene, to say the least.
Costa didn’t realize what was going on at the moment, but said he definitely felt it.