Being big is applicable again in combating. Over the past year or so, both boxing and MMA have seen somewhat of a rebirth in the heavyweight divisions with Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Stipe Miocic rising through the ranks as the best in the world. With top winners brings a few of the best opponents, and on Saturday night in Boston, Miocic is going to be the first to reply a truly hard test.
The existing UFC heavyweight champion is set to take on perhaps the scariest puncher at MMA when he squares off from Francis Ngannou at the primary event at TD Garden. Ngannou (11-1, 7 KOs) has won all five of his fights since joining the company and all coming via KO/TKO with not one getting past the second round. His brutal knockout of top competition Alistair Overeem in UFC 218 might happen to be the most barbarous knockout of the year.
But Miocic stays his calm and collected ahead of his challenge. Miocic (17-2, 13 KOs) is also on a five-fight knockout streak and sits just one win short of becoming the longest reigning heavyweight champion in company history.
“I’m so utilized to it by now,” Miocic stated throughout his open workout on Wednesday. “I love being the underdog because I shut everyone up. That is what this sport’s all about — it is like’The Jerry Springer Show’… I am walking ‘and .’ No one (else) is going to be champion till I leave.
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