Getting big is relevant again in combating. Throughout the past year or so, both boxing and MMA have seen somewhat of a rebirth from the heavyweight divisions with Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Stipe Miocic rising through the ranks as the best in the world. And with top winners brings a few of the greatest opponents, and on Saturday night in Boston, Miocic will be the first to reply a truly tough test.
The current UFC heavyweight champion is set to carry on possibly the funniest puncher in MMA when he squares off against Francis Ngannou at the main event at TD Garden. Ngannou (11-1, 7 KOs) has won five of his fights since joining the company and all coming via KO/TKO with none getting past the next round. His brutal knockout of top competition Alistair Overeem at UFC 218 might happen to be the most barbarous knockout of this year.
But Miocic remains his calm and collected ahead of his latest challenge. Miocic (17-2, 13 KOs) is also on a five-fight knockout streak and sits only one win short of becoming the longest reigning heavyweight champion in business history.
“I am so used to it by now,” Miocic said during his open work on Wednesday. “I love being the underdog since I shut up everyone. That’s what this game’s all about — it is like’The Jerry Springer Show’… I’m walking out’and still.’ No one (else) is going to be champion until I leave.
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