Singer, songwriter and actress Demi Lovato has been quietly dating former UFC champion Luke Rockhold for several months now.
Coincidentally she started engaging in martial arts around the time her romance with Rockhold started. She is currently a one stripe white belt. under Orlando Sanchez.
Lovato is fresh out of her longterm romance with “That 70s show” actor Wilmer Walderama. She has been practicing bjj since June this year. She has been training under 2015 ADCC champion Orlando Sanchez of Gracie Barra. She has ben posting various pictures of herself on her snapchat training.
Sources tell TMZ that:
the 24-year-old singer hit it off with the 31-year-old former UFC middleweight champ earlier this year while training at Unbreakable gym in Los Angeles.
Long story short … we’re told the two clicked right away — and have even sent some secret inside messages to each other on social media … including a back and forth with smiley face art on their fingers.
She was also seen working on her striking in that same time window with Jay Glazer
Lovato has now intensified her MMA training, UFC on FOX MMA Analyst Jay Glazer Says Lovato can and has the desire to Fight MMA Professionally:
“She gets mad if we don’t get after her harder,” said Glazer. “She’s definitely one of our fighters, without a doubt.
“I wish I could bottle up her mindset and sell it to all the guys in the UFC and Bellator. She’s a bad little lioness dude. Don’t mess with her.”
“She’s brought [fighting] up to us a million times. But she has that mindset. You see how hard she hits?”
Glazer then went on to recall an instance when he was holding pads for Lovato and the singer kicked him in the ribs, giving him “the worst bruise I’ve had so far”.
“She’s a violent little b*stard,” said Glazer.
A recent tweet by Lovato shows that she has some alternative plans for 2017:
So excited for 2017. Taking a break from music and the spotlight.. I am not meant for this business and the media ??
— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) October 4, 2016
