Getting big is relevant again in combating. Throughout the last year or so, both boxing and MMA have seen a bit of a rebirth from the heavyweight divisions with Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Stipe Miocic rising through the ranks as the best on the planet. With top champions brings out a few of the greatest opponents, and on Saturday night in Boston, Miocic will be the first to answer a really hard test.
The current UFC heavyweight champion is set to take on perhaps the scariest puncher in MMA when he squares off from Francis Ngannou in the main event at TD Garden. Ngannou (11-1, 7 KOs) has won all five of his fights since joining the organization and all coming via KO/TKO with not one getting past the next round. His brutal knockout of high competition Alistair Overeem at UFC 218 might happen to be the most barbarous knockout of this year.
But Miocic stays his collected and calm self ahead of his challenge. Miocic (17-2, 13 KOs) is also on a five-fight knockout streak and sits just one win short of being the longest reigning heavyweight champion in company history.
«I’m so utilized to it now,» Miocic stated during his open work on Wednesday. «I love being the underdog because I shut up everyone. That is what this game’s all about — it is like’The Jerry Springer Show’… I’m walking out’and .’ No one (else) will be winner until I leave.
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