On Saturday, he made sure the curse stayed buried.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is gearing up for its UFC 203 pay-per-view (PPV) event, locked and loaded for this Saturday night (Sept. 10, 2016) inside Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, and will hold a special pre-fight press conference which is LIVE right now in the embedded video player above. It was a career moment for the OH native, who was forced to win the title inside the unfriendly confines of Curitiba, Brazil, against Fabricio Werdum at UFC 198. I’m going to drop him. But Miocic wasn’t going to be denied and was offended when he learned that Overeem had thought he tapped out. “I will be back, believe it or not”, Punk said. “He’s going to go to sleep”, said Miocic. “He put me on my ass, and that guillotine – I trained to get out of it. It was a hell of a climb, 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”. It is the 12th knockout win of Miocic’s career. “I remember punching him in the face until he was unconscious”. Despite backing away from Werdum’s pursuit, Miocic threw a powerful right hand that floored the former titlist. The finishing sequence began when Miocic caught a side kick aimed at his legs, a staple of Overeem’s game since joining Jackson-Wink MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Overeem pounced on Miocic, a Cleveland fire fighter, and put him in a guillotine hold as he tried to choke him out. “Just the entire time that we’ve been working together, Stipe has had this mindset of constantly wanting to achieve better results or become better, whether it’s mentally, physically, nutritionally, psychologically sometimes in some respects”. “He’s a great athlete, he’s tough. He’s tough.” Originally from Amsterdam, Overeem suffered his first loss since September 2014.
The 24-year-old then manhandled the debutant on the ground, breaking him down with punches and elbows before forcing Punk to tap to a rear-naked choke after two minutes and 14 seconds. He went on to lose three of his next four fights before turning it around with a four-fight win streak.
“Obviously, Mickey’s a hell of a fighter”.
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Werdum is also on the main card, looking to bounce back from that loss when he fights Travis Browne.
