Miocic: I want a title shot
Stipe Miocic: “…I lost against the former champ [Junior] dos Santos. I’ve been through a five-round fight twice. So I want a shot at the title.”
Stipe Miocic most recently earned an impressive fifth round stoppage win over the always super tough Mark Hunt. That was his fourth win in his last five fights and now has his eyes set for UFC gold:
When asked directly if he thought he should be the No. 1 contender after the sustained beating he put on Hunt, Miocic didn’t beat around the bush.
“Yes I am, yeah,” he said. “I feel that I am and I feel that I deserve it.”
Miocic said that his camp has been in contact with the UFC to discuss the title shot, but that that everything is very preliminary right now.
“My manager’s talked a little bit, nothing much more than that,” he told Ariel Helwani. “So we’ll see what happens. I just beat the fifth-ranked guy decisively. I feel like I deserve it. I showed that I belong. I showed that, especially in that fight before even though I lost against the former champ [Junior] dos Santos. I’ve been through a five-round fight twice. So I want a shot at the title.”