It will be the Heavyweight GOAT against the GOAT in an epic fight sometime in 2023.
It’s official! UFC President, Dana White, said on Friday that Stipe Miocic will get another shot at the UFC Heavyweight belt, which he lost to Francis Ngannou in March of 2021, ESPN reports. With Ngannou leaving the UFC and vacating his belt due to contract disputes, a new heavyweight champion was crowned in Vegas Saturday night as Jon Jones choked out Ciryl Gane two minutes into the 1st Round. Jones, who is arguably the greatest UFC fighter of all time moved up from light heavyweight for this fight. His last fight was February 2020.
Miocic v. Jones will likely take place in July or August.
Miocic is the greatest UFC Heavyweight of all time. He has a 6-2 record in title fights and holds the record for most heavyweight title defenses (3). One more title win will only cement his legacy as one of the greatest fighters in company history. Defeating Jones would be icing on the cake.
If Stipe can pull this off it would be legendary!! I don’t like how the UFC stalled stipe out for the last crucial years of his career and made him wait a long time for the D.C. rematch and again he is still waiting for the rematch against Francis Nganou which is now going to be Bone Jones meaning he’s going to be waiting over 2 years for a rematch ???? At his age this is going to be something out of a Rocky movie to win against someone who is basically undefeated and now moved up into the HW division. It’s not right that when stipe only has a little time left in his career the ufc wouldn’t give him a fight even though he was deserving as the prior champion. Anyways let’s hope he can make history with this last chance and catch Bone jones with a super shot KO and go down as the greatest HW in UFC. Did Nganou get scared to fight Bone Jones? I think so. Now Miocic can step in and be the Champ again!!!!
Croatian media still pushing the Robert Ljubičić callup in nauseating fashion
Actually you are nauseating.
Balderdash!
Love to see the all Josip line up with josko as well
Juranovic
Sutalo stanisic
Gvardiol
Then throw in the Luka’s
Modric
Ivanusec
And sucic
https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2023/3/6/23627028/champions-league-bayern-munich-nagelsmann-stanisic-cancelo-coman-psg-paris-saint-germain-de-ligt
Nice read on Stanisic possibly starting.
A lot of Bayern fans like Stanisic and see Cancelo as unnecessary surplus for Bayern.
Two years ago we had no RB (just a shell of Vrsaljko) and out of nowhere we have two solid RBs (Juranovic and Stanisic) who each provide something very different from one another.
Yes I thought the left side would be the real strength
And now the right side came up from relatively no where
I do wish we can find a way of potentially moving sosa up on a wing
JJ higher up on right
And get a super solid back 3
With broz of course helping out
Perisic as a striker with someone/musa?
I’m not expert but I feel this worth a shot
Sucic still on
How has his development this year?
It seems quiet but could just be me
He hasn’t scored as many goals this season but I am curious as to whether or not they are using him differently in his position. Is he playing a more deep lying playmaking role, like Modric for instance? Or is he being utilized as an offensive midfielder?? Or could this just be his age, generally people do not develop that quick in sports, and sometimes you can plateau after a while.
Either way I think he is still a great player and capable of being more in the future.
Not too many changes from what I can see. Other than Musa being added to the squad, which I hope will be a good change. Musa hasn’t been doing too bad with Benfica, even as a substitute he is doing pretty damn well.
He seems to have that presence up front.
We seem to be lacking that in spades. Hopefully having him paired up front with the likes of the other three striker’s it can make a difference for us, I hope that Beljo and Ljubicic can develop a little more and we may, hopefully, have some decent shape in the front.
Team selections for Qualifiers if noone has already posted them.
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/sport/66668-euro-2024-qualifiers
Looks about right
Interesting on the ivanusec call up again. I know he’s been better as of late but has he been that good?
I guess tho who would you call in his place. Replace him with Jakic potentially as he has more versatility in different positions
Either way both are fringe currently
The third keeper. I know he’s been mentioned
What’s the story with his current play and ceiling?
Nediljko Labrović plays regularly for Rijeka. Is very big and tall, and is also pretty young at 23.
The callup list is okay.
I’m glad that Lovren retired and that Budimir was cut in favor of Petar Musa. That was long overdue.
I am more concerned with who will actually be playing.
Musa may be called up, but he probably still sits behind both Livaja and Petkovic, despite being better than both players.
Beljo is probably already better than both of them too, but there’s always going to be a time delay with these kinds of transitions (as Dalic likes to keep the locker room stable). Hopefully Beljo continues to start and score for Augsburg, so Dalic will be forced to call him up and actually play him.
Hopefully Sucic gets some burn. I would have liked to give Perisic a bit of a break at the end and sub in a Gabriel Vidovic (if he were called).
I want us to start giving the young guys 15-20 minutes here and there (to gel with our key starters, not actually doing any full bench clearing).
Looking forward to seeing a young backline. Vida is a wasted spot, but whatever, he’s not going to play.
Stipe “Doogie Howser”, Miocic. I guess clean cut, croatian kid next door next, was never a hit with the UFC, and Dana White. Hopefully, he will have a storybook ending. He has provided a lot of entertaining moments over the years. He deserves a good final match. Wishing him the best.
He should’ve done what Francis did.
Negotiate hard while at the top, but really just use your Champion status to go look for a good boxing match payout.
It’s a travesty that he had to eat so many brutal KO punches (which may mess him up in the long run) without seriously cashing in.
I mean, he’s made himself several million (which should hopefully set him up for life), but I’m not sure if taking on additional fights at this level (and at this age) is worth it, if Dana White will only pay him $700,000 for it.
Lol you idiot. You really think 700k all in is what Stipe will get. They will pay him this low? The former champ. Keep smoking that weed.
Lol what did Francis do? He has no contract and is begging fury and wilder for a fight. None off them even acknowledge him. Great strategy. Lol.
Something wrong with you.
Ridiculous take. Stipe with cut from pay Per view makes millions not 700k.
What exactly has Fancis done? He has No fight with wilder or fury and each day becomes more irrelevant. He has no management team as well. You think stipe should done same as Feancis. Lol.
If you don’t know what you are talking about don’t post.
He doesn’t fit the narrative
He’s just kind of a goofy loving dork who can beat the crap out of people and isn’t “sexy” to sell especially in this day
Stipe if you happen to see this
You’re perfect brother
Thank you to providing Croats and the diaspora something to be proud of
And everyone is counting you out already
But be like a true Croat and be the David vs the Goliath!
We all resemble that remark.
Musa is IN!!!!
Beljo got a pretpoziv.
I guess Dalic saw the Bundesliga scoresheets this weekend on Teletext.
Yup. First thing I looked for
Great news. He must be a happy young man today
Some UFC HW fights look staged to me.
I like Stipe’s new serial killer look
Anyone watch the Jones fight tonight? So disappointing and tells us nothing except that Gane was fast tracked in the HW division for no reason. He beat some scrubs and couldn’t touch Ngannou or Jones. Couldn’t shine their shoes.
Fight done in 2 minutes. Awkward submission against the fence. So weak.
Oh man I can’t wait to see Stipe again. I lost interest in the sport a little though. Miocic would certainly restore my interest.
Search Roberto Soldic, just joint One Championship, came from a smaller promotion but it sounded like he a pretty big free agent when he left. He went on Ariel H’s show to announce who he would sign with. This guy might be someone we could follow on here.
Ya he looks promising
Don’t know why he didn’t go to ufc? Is he not good enough currently? Is money pretty good in Europe?
I don’t know enough
But guy looks like a super hard worker
He said on Ariel H’s show it’s because he could compete in kickboxing matches and boxing matches along with MMA
Oh cool
Ya he looks like a born fighter
Make us proud young man
Yes sir. Stipe v Ngannu 1 was better than Rocky and all Creed movies put together cus it was real reality brotha!