After a huge title defense against Ngannou only one week ago, Stipe Miocic is swirling up MMA headlines on this Friday night as it has been announced that he will fight light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier at UFC 226 in Las Vegas July 7th.
Both fighters are coming off a title defense at UFC 220 this past weekend in Boston and will go toe-to-toe for Miocic’s heavyweight belt in the summer. Cormier will be going up a weight class for this fight but he is no stranger to the heavyweight department. Cormier fought in the heavyweight division from 2009-2013 and is an all-around fighter with ground game and submission power.
Cormier only has one professional loss in his career; to Jon Jones in January of 2015. When the two met again in July 2017, Jones would knockout Cormier but the fight would later be called a “no contest” as Jones tested for a banned steroid.
This will be another great test for Miocic and we should all be excited for this fight.
Who’s going to Vegas?!
i hope miocic knocks him out
Man we need to set up a cro event for this one. Also, Miocic is going to destroy cormier…big mistake by cormier taking this fight…
Bones made him cry. Miocic will make DC’s doctors cry.
new victory for Filip Hrgović. He is very perspective boxer.
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DC is a short fatty
Yeah Cormier is the LHW champ. BUT he was the HW champ in bellator, going 13-0, tossing guys twice his size around for fun. So don’t think this is easy by any stretch, this will be tougher than Ngannou for sure.
Isn’t Miočić like 6 inches taller and like 40 pounds heavier?
Cormier will add maybe 20 lbs but still, not enough frame to pack on anything useful.
Man if cro still in World Cup that would be like the semis or
Something how insane would that be
I think our boys got this
Croatian invasion or what???
Oh shit. This is gonna be good. Cormier is very good at wrestling and grappling but I think Miocic can pull this off.