Fans have been impressed with his recent fights, with him knocking out all three of his last opponents. In 56 professional MMA bouts, “The Reem” has evolved into one of the most unsafe heavyweights on the planet. Werdum believes if he wins, he will have a solid case for a chance at the victor of Miocic-Overeem.
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Stipe Miocic was the victor, but when his heavyweight title bout with Alistair Overeem ended, he couldn’t quite remember what had happened. Eye, who was fighting in front of her come crowd Saturday, had the audience behind her back, and she came out strong to prove her rank in the bantamweight division. We’re here for one goal and one goal only. He said that his goal at UFC 203 was to shut Overeem down and “turn the motherboard off”, something he convincingly accomplished after quickly recovering from the knockdown. “The afterparty for some people will not be as nice”. He knocks Overeem out cold with one of the punches on the ground.
“Overeem brings a lot of challenges”.
But Miocic would not be denied in his home state and he continued to come forward, chasing the Dutchman who did not want to enter boxing range.
Following the win against Overeem, Miocic jumped on top of the cage and led more than 18,000 fight fans in a chant of “O-H-I-O”. Miocic has the advantage, landing 4.93 per minute compared with Overeem’s 3.81 per minute.
“Stipe was the better man today”, Overeem said. While he did take down Mark Hunt six times and landed a record number of strikes in their match, he has not attempted a takedown in his past two fights.
Faber appeared to hurt his right hand early in the fight, and Rivera badly damaged Faber’s leg with kicks to slow him as the fight progressed. He had it in tight and it was clear that Punk was not going to be able to get out of it.
One of them will live his fairy tale on Saturday night. In a post-interview with fight analyst and UFC commentator Joe Rogan, Overeem said that the referee might have overlooked Miocic tapping out during a guillotine choke.
“We’ve brought some great guys in, we’ve looked over some film and we have a great strategic plan like we always do”. I’m going to go out there and do my job. “I didn’t get to the summit tonight but it doesn’t mean I’m going to give up, it doesn’t mean I’m going anywhere, it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop”.
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For Correia, who won for the first time in nearly two years, she has all the confidence in the world; she even called out Miesha post-fight.
