Weidman vs. Rockhold will headline UFC 199 at the Forum in Inglewood

Chris Weidman’s determination produced one of the most surprising outcomes in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship: his 2013 knockout that ended Anderson Silva’s seven-year run as middleweight champion.

Now, after suffering his first defeat in December, Weidman says he feels even more driven to recapture the belt.

And his opportunity will come at UFC 199 on June 4 at the Forum in Inglewood, where Weidman’s rematch with middleweight champion Luke Rockhold will be the main event, the UFC announced Friday.

The men’s bantamweight title fight will also be contested on the card, the third meeting of a trilogy between new champion Dominick Cruz of San Diego and his fierce rival from Sacramento, Urijah Faber.

The UFC announced the card was coming to the Forum on Friday before the UFC 196 weigh-ins featuring Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz and women’s bantamweight title fighters Holly Holm and Miesha Tate.

Staples Center was in the early running for UFC 199, after last hosting a card headlined by Ronda Rousey in February 2015, but the arena couldn’t commit firmly to the date given possible NBA and NHL playoff games involving the Clippers or Kings.

New York’s Weidman (13-1) was beaten by San Jose’s former Strikeforce champion Rockhold (15-2) on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas, after Rockhold took advantage of Weidman’s missed spinning back kick.

Rockhold took Weidman down and set up a relentless attack of punches while atop Weidman until the end of the third.

Rockhold finished Weidman in the fourth, pounding him with four punches against the cage that convinced referee Herb Dean to stop the fight.

“I felt like I was winning the fight, but then I made a mistake,” Weidman said of the missed kick. “It’s well-documented now that I broke a foot in two spots [before the fight] and I had bone chips in my elbow, which I had removed right after the fight.

“I had gone through stuff in my other fights and that’s what was in my head [to proceed], that I was going to get through it. But I was wrong. He was better than me that night. Credit to him, but he’s going to be fighting a different guy at UFC 199.”

Weidman said he’s relying on the same obsessive attention to detail that he used before fighting Silva, who Weidman also defeated in a rematch.

“There’s no other option for me [but winning],” Weidman said. “It cannot be the same [result], or even close to it. This is do or die for me. I’m on a mission like never before.

“This is bigger to me than my first Anderson Silva fight, which I dreamed about forever. Luke is on my mind more than that. This is all I think about. I’m training like never before. That loss has allowed me to grow.”

Bantamweight champion Cruz (21-1) knows about personal growth, after enduring three knee injuries and fighting just twice between October 2011 and now.

Cruz’s new perspective led to a redemptive split-decision triumph in January over then-champion T.J. Dillashaw.

In Faber (33-8), he’ll meet a 36-year-old veteran who handed Cruz his only loss – in a 2007 World Extreme Cagefighting bout. The pair met again in July 2011 and Cruz won a UFC “fight of the night” by unanimous decision in a bantamweight title fight.

Faber, the No. 3-ranked bantamweight following a December victory over Frankie Saenz, lost prior title shots to Renan Barao in 2014 and 2012. He also had three title losses in the WEC, including a 2010 defeat at the hands of former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo.