We got some great MMA tonight. They knocked each other down five seconds apart, landed insanely violent power shots that would’ve knocked most other fighters down or out cold, and were SMILING AND TONGUE WAGGING THROUGHOUT THIS CARNAGE! A new Fight of the Night Power Rankings has dropped. Stipe Miocic Daniel Cormier 1 0 … Why he still feels the need to fight with all that money, especially against a killer like Costa, is anyone’s guess. Find out when the next UFC event is and see specifics about individual fights. The first fight between Cormier and Miocic 13 months ago was a thing of beauty and intelligence realized by two great athletes, short but thrilling, with Cormier using his clinching and dirty-boxing skills to nullify Miocic’s superior striking at distance and size advantage. Who pegged Drakkar Klose and Christos Giagos having an action-packed war? So the fact that the rematch between Cormier (22-1-1 NC) and Miocic (18-3) fight is actually happening and the fight between Cormier and Lesnar is not is a giant victory for mixed martial arts and for those of us who can still see the decency in a cage fight. Both of them are genetically incapable of fighting boring, and Diaz is returning after three years as a grumbling millionaire-in-repose and Pettis was the first mixed martial artist on a Wheaties box, and they’re both artists, and there is absolutely no way a fight between them could devolve into a wrestling match: Their consciences wouldn’t allow it and neither would the Fates. Meanwhile, Miocic, who had ruled over the heavyweight division for two years, could only stand there and watch in silence as his hopes for an immediate rematch were dashed in the name of spectacle—the unwilling, broken-hearted straight man in an elaborate con. I had it 30-27 for Cormier, but it was way more competitive than that, and I suspected Cormier was more tired than Stipe after 15 minutes. UFC 241: Stipe Miocic "It's On Now!" There’s only one way you can watch UFC 241: ESPN+. Legitimately one of the best fights of 2019 and the only robbery was the fact that this wasn’t a five-rounder instead of a three-rounder. In honor of Khamzat Chimaev's 10 day turnaround for his fight against Gerald Meerschaert at UFC Vegas, we look back at the Top 5 fastest turnarounds in UFC history. Featherweight prospect Sodiq Yusuff survived a serious scare against Gabriel Benitez, as the two engaged in an awesome one-round battle. Probably a rematch with Francis Ngannou, unless the UFC throws a shitload of money at Jon Jones to get him to move up in weight for a superfight. ESPN+ also hosts Top Rank Boxing matches, daily MLB games, every out-0f-market MLS game, and loads of college football and basketball. UFC 241: The Scorecard A Look At The Biggest Winners To Emerge From The Honda Center. Who saw that result materializing? Daniel Cormier (c) TKO (punches) 4 4:09 Welterweight Nate Diaz: def. Up-to-date 2020 UFC event schedules. Cory Sandhagen is for real. Fighter Kd Str Td Sub Weight class Method Round Time win. However, it was reported on July 30 that Makdessi was forced to withdraw for undisclosed reasons. Speaking of surpassing expectations, who really thought the middleweight bout between Paulo Costa and Yoel Romero was going to be as good as we hoped it would be? That’s a good win over a game opponent, and he overcame adversity to get his hand raised. He spent over a year in prison before being sent home by the Spanish authorities, only to be immediately scooped up as a fugitive by the American authorities at JFK Airport and shipped off to Riker’s Island, where he was nearly murdered by fellow prisoners before getting rescued at the last moment by a sympathetic judge.