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Report: Miocic gets next shot at Werdum

The highly reliable Jeremy Botter, lead MMA writer for Bleacher Report, reports that Stipe Miocic will get the first shot at UFC heavyweight champion Fabrcio Werdum.

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Chris Palmquist
June 24, 2015 · 1 min read
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There was intense speculation about who would get the first shot at new UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum. UFC president Dana White narrowed it down to two – either Andrei Arlovski or Stipe Miocic.

Now the highly reliable Jeremy Botter, lead MMA writer for Bleacher Report, reports that now there is one.

Jeremy Botter ‏@jeremybotter

The next man to fight Fabricio Werdum will be Stipe Miocic, multiple sources confirm. So that will be fun.

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who are the sources?

Jeremy Botter ‏@jeremybotter

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