![]() He shoots in and takes Ngannou all the way across the cage before finishing the takedown. Straight right scores for Miocic, then a straight left. Miocic decks him with an overhand right, but Ngannou absorbs it. Miocic content to stay outside and score with inside leg kicks. Inside leg kick by Miocic, Ngannou partially lands an overhand right. Round 2: Miocic again opening up with an inside leg kick. MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Miocic. Miocic avoids Ngannou’s’ shots and clips him on the chin with a couple of punches, Ngannou gets in one of his own, Miocic takes him down again to close the round. Ngannou flat on his back and he takes punches to the face, but he gets to his knees and powers back up to his feet. Short punches from top position by the champion. He times a double leg and finally gets Ngannou down, moving into side control. Right hand by Miocic finds Ngannou’s chin. Miocic ducks out of the way of a big Ngannou punch. They separate again with half a round to go. Work against the fence, Ngannou scores with a high knee. Ngannou searching for that uppercut and Miocic clinches up with him. More big shots from Ngannou that catch air, Miocic comes over the top with a right hand. Uppercut connects for Ngannou, Miocic looks okay. Winging shots by Ngannou, Miocic dodging his head out of the way. ![]() Ngannou defends it and he’s stalking Miocic now. They separate and Ngannou goes head hunting, Miocic counters with a single leg. They end up with Miocic pressing Ngannou against the fence. Ngannou answers by going up high with a kick, Miocic digs in for a takedown and almost gets it. Miocic scores first with an outside leg kick. Round 1: Herb Dean on hand to officiate the heavyweight championship main event. ![]() Miocic, the reigning champion, will look to become the first heavyweight in UFC history to record three consecutive title defenses when he takes on Ngannou, the Cameroonian-French fighter who has finished all six of his UFC opponents, in the night’s main event. Francis Ngannou, a heavyweight championship bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the TD Garden in Boston. Betsafe have his odds listed at 4/13 at the time of writing, while underdog Oezdemir will get you odds of 7/3.This is the UFC 220 live blog for Stipe Miocic vs. Unsurprisingly, champion Daniel Cormier will walk to the cage this weekend as the overwhelming favourite to claim a win. ![]() For a special deal for new Betsafe customers, click hereĬormier, though, is a resilient champion and will look to stifle Oezdemir early when he is at his most dangerous and will be well aware of the impact made by the then-unheralded Alexander Gustafsson when he took Jon Jones to the limit a few years back. If he does something similar on Saturday night, it will mark the culmination of the most successful debut year of anyone in recent UFC history. This time last year, Oezdemir had yet to make his UFC debut but 2017 was a successful year for him, particularly in his two most recent KO victories against Misha Cirkunov and Jimi Manuwa in a combined 70 seconds. Luckily for him and his supporters, he has shown to possess particularly potent power in his brief UFC tenure thus far. Aside from being caught by Anthony Johnson inside the first 30 second of their first meeting in 2015, Cormier has never really seemed in danger on the feet in any of his bouts - until his second meeting with Jones last summer.įor Oezdemir to come out of Boston with a world title around his waist, conventional wisdom suggests that in order to do so he will have to repeat Jones’ achievement. The famously durable Cormier has only been beaten by one man in his mixed martial arts career (Jones) and has more than held his own against the litany of seasoned strikers he has faced in the past. It’s one thing to say it, but it’s an entirely different thing to try an implement. While a very significant Jon Jones-sized asterisk must be applied to that previous sentence, the fact of the matter is that the last time Cormier competed in the UFC he was rendered unconscious for the first time in his career - and that is precisely the method of victory that title challenger Volkan Oezdemir will attempt to employ this weekend. Daniel Cormier comes into his latest light heavyweight title defense in the odd position of actually having lost his last bout.
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