Back and forth, back and forth. eventually Miocic took over and got the knockout victory.
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They say that you can’t truly be considered a champion until you defend your title..
The Ohio native successfully defended his UFC Heavyweight Championship at the UFC 203 pay-per-view by knocking out his opponent, Alistair Overeem, with a flurry of punches in the opening round of the main event.
But the fight wasn’t without controversy, Overeem suggesting that Miocic tapped out while he was in the guillotine. He threw harder than I thought, he kicked harder than I thought, and you know, that was my own fault, but I knew everything that was coming.
“I don’t know how I tapped out, I had two hands on his hands”, Miocic said at the UFC 203 post fight press conference. “I wanted to shut him down, turn the mother board off”.
That was a s good as the fight got for Overeem, who spent the rest of the fight landing a few big shots, but not really troubling Miocic. Soon after, he took the microphone and yelled “O-H” to the crowd, which responded “I-0”, to the local champ, whose knock out of Fabricio Werdum this spring was followed by the Cavaliers overcoming a 3-1 deficit to beat Golden State in the NBA Finals. Meanwhile, Phil Brooks, aka “CM Punk”, made his long-awaited and heavily hyped debut and ignited the capacity crowd with Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” – his trademark walkout song from his days as a World Wrestling Entertainment superstar.
Stipe Miocic has his arm raised by the referee after defeating Alistair Overeem, from the Netherlands, during a heavyweight title bout at UFC 203 on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, in Cleveland.
Prior to Miocic’s bout, former heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum won a unanimous decision over Travis Browne.
The fourth fight on the main card saw three-time UFC bantamweight contender Urijah Faber face off with talented up-and-coming fighter Jimmie Rivera.
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Jessica Andrade, top, punches Joanne Calderwood, of Scotland, during a women’s straw weight bout at UFC 203 on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, in Cleveland.
