Getting big is applicable 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 very best in the world. And with top winners brings some of the greatest competitors, and on Saturday night in Boston, Miocic is going to be the first to reply a truly tough test.
The existing UFC heavyweight champion is set to carry on perhaps the scariest puncher at MMA when he squares off against Francis Ngannou at the primary event at TD Garden. Ngannou (11-1, 7 KOs) has won five of his fights since joining the organization and all coming through KO/TKO with none getting past the next round. His brutal knockout of high competition Alistair Overeem at UFC 218 might happen to be the most vicious knockout of the year.
But Miocic remains his collected and calm self ahead of his challenge. Miocic (17-2, 13 KOs) can also be on a five-fight knockout streak and sits only one win short of being the longest reigning heavyweight champion in company history.
“I’m so used to it now,” Miocic stated during his receptive workout on Wednesday. “I love being the underdog since I shut up everyone. That’s exactly what this game’s all about — it’s like’The Jerry Springer Show’… I am walking ‘and still.’ No one (else) is going to be champion till I depart.
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