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The co-host of MMAjunkie Radio and the contributor of MMAjunkie, Dan Tom, break down the best fights of UFC 226. Today, we watch the main event Stipe Miocic against Daniel Cormier .
UFC 226 takes place on Saturday at T-Mobile Las Vegas Arena, and the main map is broadcast in pay-per-view after the preliminary rounds on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.
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Stipe Miocic (18-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC)
Staple Info:
- Height : 6 "4" Age: 35 Weight: 246 lbs. Range: 80 "
- Last fight: Decision victory Francis Ngannou (Jan 20, 2018)
- Encampment: Strong Style Fight Team (Ohio)
- Pose / Strike: Orthodox / Kickboxing
- Risk Management: Good
Additional Info:
+ UFC Heavyweight Champion
+ Golden Gloves Winner
+ 1 Division NCAA Wrestler
+ Regional Title MMA
+ 14 KO victories
+ 9 first Rounded Finishes
+ KO Power
+ Aggressive Allure and Pressure
+ Excellent Footwork
+ Common Sense in the Pocket
^ Shoots and returns well
+ Dangerous right hand
^ Counterfeit well off parade inside
+ Solid takedown transitions
^ Favors singles head-out
+ Good positional maneuvers
^ Attacking active ground
Daniel Cormier (20-1 MMA, 9-1 CFU)
Staple Info:
- Height: 5 "11" Age: 39 Weight: 230 lbs. Range: 72 "
- Last match: TKO defeated Volkan Oezdemir (January 20, 2018)
- Camp: American Academy of Kickboxing (San Jose, CA)
- Position / style striking: Orthodox / kickboxing
- Management risk: Good
Additional info:
+ UFC Light Heavyweight Champion
+ Grand Prix Strikeforce Heavyweight
+ 2x US Olympian (wrestling captain)
+ Brown belt jiu-jitsu
+ 9 KO victories
+ 4 bid victories
+ 7 first round finals
+ KO power
+ aggressive pace and pressure
+ deceptive distance plus close
^ Sliding and ripping path inside
+ Overalls and heavy uppercuts
+ Sturdy fighting game
^ Effective dirty boxer
+ Diverse tajedown game
^ Single Crotch Favors
+ Smartly Transitions ur top [19659026] Abstract:
The main event of the UFC 226 is a super legitimate fight as heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic w eliminates the current lightweight champion, Daniel Cormier , back to his initial weight class.
Despite past frustrations with not being respectful enough, Miocic has proven that his skeptics were wrong to rank as the most evil man on the planet. currently on a run of six consecutive wins and is looking to make a fourth record defense. Going one step further is a unique challenger at Cormier, a technically undefeated man in this division, while winning victories over former UFC champions.
Starting from there, we have a clash of two fighters who use many of the same tools and themes at their high-pressure approach.
A native of the American Kickboxing Academy, Cormier embodies a style similar to his companion, Cain Velasquez. Moving forward with feints, feints, and measurement jabs, Cormier will slide and sneak in. In recent outings, Cormier has also applied a trapping variant by hand, extending his arms in order to lure the opposition to trade with him according to his conditions.
Often punctuating his presence with high clashes, the champion has no problem to finish with the lower leg down. In fact, I think Cormier has an underrated kicking ability, and I would not be surprised to see him trying to target Miocic's legs after seeing what Junior Dos Santos was able to do in that department. Respect the speed and power that will come back to him.
Winner of Golden Gloves boxing even before starting his MMA career, Miocic continues to distinguish himself among his contemporaries by his typing. Although Mioicic's athletic abilities and track record in wrestling add an undeniable dimension to his game, it's the job the champion does in small spaces that is so impressive.
Similar to a heavyweight version of Frankie Edgar a series of jabs and feints, moving slightly in search of his chips or his tracking shots. Moving as well sideways as in and out, Miocic shows a good sense of action inside the pocket, pulling and almost shyly firing his punches.
Miocic uses his patent inside parades or jumps to the side, his ram with a right hand will force Cormier to try to l & # 39; avoid. That said, Miocic will also have to keep his best behavior, especially if we consider that his style also allows to have traffic and counters in reverse.
Assuming that neither one nor the other is in the first stanzas, I suspect that a good deal of this battle will be determined by the wrestling exchanges
There, the Similarities between the two are obvious since they each come from struggling backgrounds, even preferring similar tools
A former captain of the US Olympic wrestling team, Cormier. is at home whenever it works inside the body. When he does not pull on the heads to deliver uppercuts, the Olympic wrestler usually reaches out for his favorite snatch-single, a takedown that he goes on in a high hike that allows him to pitch his opposition into the world. air, "
Mixing smooth journeys while forcing his opponents to balance, Cormier almost feels like running a children 's class in the same way as he' s going to do. ensures to hit all his sequences step by step. The light heavyweight champion also has good reactionary attacks, which could prove useful against an aggressive opponent.
