Stipe Miocic is the most dominant UFC heavyweight champion ever, so why not love?

Stipe Miocic does not exactly feel the love. The most dominant heavyweight champion in the history of the UFC, best player than the favorite 2-1 in a real super-fight against the light-weight champion, has the impression that Daniel Cormier took it away on Saturday night at UFC 226 Las Vegas

"(it's) like every fight – I have the impression that not everyone gives me not really a chance, as I fought faded fighters or something like that, "said Miocic in Los Angeles. Angeles this week (look above).

A little sad, when you think about it. Especially from the man who is literally the favorite to win.

Part of that might be just Miocic (18-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) fanning its own fires. You know fighters. They like to feel like losers, as powerful forces are lined up against them and they have to win just to prove that everyone is wrong. So what happens if it's mostly a story that they invented?

But with Miocic, there may be some truth. Not necessarily the role of the people who expect him to yield to Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) in their paid poster head – Miocic is taller, younger and seems to have more ways to earn than Cormier – but in fact, it seems to be more based on a feeling.

As good as Miocic is, he's still not what we want in a heavyweight champion. This continues to be true even though it gives us a lot of things that we have always lamented for not having in a heavyweight champion.

For a long time, the division's blow was a lack of stability at the top. Perhaps it was the superficiality of the talent pool, or the inherent nature of the big guys who were punching tiny gloves, but no one seemed to be able to hold this strap for more than one fight or two. When it was not their opponents who brought them in, it was a bizarre twist of fate.

Brock Lesnar? Removed by diverticulitis. Frank Mir? He dropped his motorcycle and plunged into a downward spiral. Cain Velasquez? Never bothered to look at the elevation in Mexico, apparently.

But Miocic, who wins the belt and can, broke a title defense record that was as old as the UFC. And it's not like it squeaked in close-quarters fighting, either

His last defender was his first goal, and even then, there was no doubt that he had completely defeated Francis Ngannou, who was considered the most scary weight on this side of Godzilla. Before that, one has to go back to 2014 to find an eccentric fight that did not end with him, standing on a vanquished enemy, often unconscious.

What else do we want from this guy? What will it take for it to finally receive full faith and credit for the UFC heavyweight title?

Mainly this seems to be a personality problem. Maybe other champions could pbad as a humble firefighter who refuses to leave his day job, but from the heavyweight champion we are expecting more. We want a man bigger than life. We want a destroyer of worlds.

When Miocic mumbles the same old phrase about going out with the belt still tied around his waist, it almost looks like he's trying to annoy us by spite.

Fortunately for Miocic (and the UFC), you do not have much to do to sell this fight. An inter-divisional battle with Cormier, who was undefeated in his time as a heavyweight and went through all the 205 untitled Jon Jones? Yes, that's the kind of thing that fans can not resist.

For Cormier, a victory would be historic. For Miocic, it's just a fantastic legacy builder. Maybe that explains why he has the impression that people do not want him to win. It's such a good story if Cormier beats it.

Again, it's not as if Miocic cared too much about our favorite stories before. Why should he start now?

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