Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-01-20, good start but the rest of the fight was not so exciting: Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou gets two stars.The Ufc Hw champion Stipe Miocic entered this fight with a professional mma record of 17-2-0 (82% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.1 heavyweight in the world. He suffered his last loss when he faced Junior dos Santos in their first bout in 2014 (via unanimous decision, dos Santos vs Miocic), after this fight he has collected five victories winning the Ufc belt against Fabricio Werdum (=Werdum vs Miocic) and defending it with Alistair Overeem (=Miocic vs Overeem) and Junior dos Santos in their second bout (=Miocic vs dos Santos 2).
His opponent, Francis Ngannou, has an official record of 11-1-0 (100% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.2 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced Zoumana Cisse at his second pro mma fight in 2013, since then he has won ten consecutive fights beating Anthony Hamilton, Andrei Arlovski (=Arlovski vs Ngannou) and Alistair Overeem in his last three (=Overeem vs Ngannou). Miocic vs Ngannou, main event of Ufc 220, is valid for the Ufc heavyweight title (Miocic’s third defense); they also faced each other a second time on March 27, 2021 (Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: UFC 220: Miocic vs Ngannou
Date: 2018-01-20
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Division: heavyweight (265 lbs, 120 kg)
Title: UFC Heavyweight Championship title
UFC 220 fight card (main fights):
Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou
Daniel Cormier vs Volkan Oezdemir
Shane Burgos vs Calvin Kattar
Gian Villante vs Francimar Barroso
Thomas Almeida vs Rob Font
Dustin Ortiz vs Alexandre Pantoja
Ngannou’s next fight: Francis Ngannou vs Derrick Lewis
Miocic’s next fight: Stipe Miocic vs Daniel Cormier
Miocic vs Ngannou Fight Video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utchsZ5NDM
OFFICIAL VIDEO
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Official highlights
ngannou is a good and dangerous striker but he can fight for just one round…i hope to see cain velasquez soon
I never understood why Ngannou was the betting favorite. He had no chance against a Champion with a very high ring IQ.
Ngannou could’ve used a oxygen tank between rounds
Francis looked like a primitive fighter …just swinging for the fences then getting gassed out
Stipe grinded him out
Well done
Stipe should be P4P #2 at least
Painful to watch. Ugh.
Miocic won this fight like a b*tch. The way Ngannou looked in Round 2 I could not believe Stipe let this fight go to a decision! RDs 2-5 Ngannou was operating at like 25-50% of his peak and Stipe was still too scared to truly trade punches and go for the KO. Instead, he opted to tie him up and bring it to the ground (where Ngannou is awful).. but STILL couldn’t even submit him! He instead just kept safely draining Ngannou’s energy more and more over 5 rounds and got a UD victory in truly bitchass fashion!