The main event of UFC 198 featured a heavyweight title fight between defending champion Fabricio Werdum and top contender Stipe Miocic.
Hard-hitting Stipe Miocic scored a one-punch knockout of Fabricio Werdum in the main event of UFC 198 on Saturday night, claiming the UFC heavyweight title and sending the third-largest crowd in company home disappointed.
Miocic was backpedaling when Werdum aggressively charged after him and ran right into a looping right hand which caught him flush on the jaw. Werdum face-planted to the mat and the bout was waved off at the 2:47 mark of the opening round in front of an estimated 45,000 fans at Arena de Baixada.
source: mmafighting.com
Miocic and Werdum enter the Octagon:
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Official Result: Stipe Miocic defeated Fabricio Werdum by KO (Punch, Round 1, 2:47)
Miocic the moment he realized he just become a UFC champion:
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What up Cleveland!
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And NEW UFC heavyweight champion:
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About Fabricio Werdum
There were times in his MMA career when Fabricio Werdum seemed destined to be remembered as a very good – but probably not great – heavyweight fighter. Then came UFC 188 in Mexico City.
In what was clearly his finest moment in the Octagon, Werdum scored a third-round submission victory over UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, winning the belt and making a case that he belongs among the division’s all-time best fighters.
Werdum, a three-time Brazilian jiu jitsu world champion, now can claim victories over two of the sport’s greatest heavyweights: Velasquez and the great Russian champion Fedor Emelianenko.
In both of those bouts, Werdum was an underdog. In both, he won by submission.
His climb to the top of the MMA world has been relentless, if not always successful. He suffered disheartening losses to Andrei Arlovski in 2007, Junior Dos Santos in 2008 and Alistair Overeem in 2011 but has also scored wins over such notable fighters as Gabriel Gonzaga, Antonio Bigfoot Silva, Roy Nelson and Travis Browne.
source: ufc.com
About Stipe Miocic
Thoughts on opponent, Fabricio Werdum? He’s a tough guy. He’s the champ, he’s beaten all the best guys in the world, and he’s good on the ground and gets better every fight. But he hasn’t seen anything like me yet.
TRAINING: Twice a day Mon-Friday and once on Saturday. Conditioning and strength in the morning and some type of sparring in the evening.
When and why did you start training for fighting? 2005 – I was helping a guy train for a fight and never left the gym.
source: ufc.com
