INGLEWOOD, CA - JUNE 04: Luke Rockhold attends the post fight press conference after the UFC 199 event at The Forum on June 4, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold is ready to return he’s tired of waiting for his opportunity.

After nearly a decade of relative stability with Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman as its undisputed champions, the UFC’s middleweight division has become a center of uncertainty during the past year after Luke Rockhold dethroned Weidman at UFC 194.

Now that he’s healthy and ready to return, Rockhold is tired of waiting for his opportunity to take on the division’s best. While he’s actually been ready to step into the Octagon since June, Rockhold told Submission Radio that finding the right opponent has been a problem.

“September is looking good,” said Rockhold. “We’ll see. My body feels good. I’m ready to fight and that falls into my timeframe. So I don’t want to postpone much further than that. I’ve been ready to fight since June and July and we’ve postponed week after week and just trying to find me an opponent, so I’m pretty sick of it. I am ready to fight. I’m sure you’ll see something happen here shortly.”

After inning the middleweight strap, Rockhold fell short in his first attempt to defend the title, suffering an opening round knockout loss to current middleweight champion Michael Bisping at last summer’s UFC 199 and Rockhold hasn’t fought since.

The current middleweight title scenario is tied up with Bisping and newly-crowned interim middleweight champion Robert Whittaker. Rockhold might not be able to sit on the sidelines and wait for clarity.

“I’m not really happy to wait anymore, so we’ll see. We’ll see,” said Rockhold. “There’s probably a few guys and we might just have to settle and make something happen. So we are talking, we’re in the midst of it, in the heat of it all right now. So we’ll see. We’ll see what comes to surface, but something will arise here shortly.”

“Someone in the top ten,” added Rockhold.

During his time on the sidelines, Rockhold’s frustration regarding his UFC paycheck and a potential title fight between Bisping and retired welterweight great Georges St-Pierre led to a brief Twitter beef with Dana White. While he even called for middleweights to strike at one point, Rockhold told Submission Radio that his relationship with White is still in good shape.

“Yeah, yeah. We’re talking, we’re cool. Everything’s straight. [We’re] on good terms,” said Rockhold