When Stipe Miocic fought Junior dos Santos at UFC on Fox 13 in December 2014, it was declared “Fight of the Night.” Extra paycheck aside, it’s something that Miocic has had on his mind ever since.
The Cleveland native hasn’t lost since dropping a unanimous decision to dos Santos that night and along the way, he’s scooped up the UFC’s heavyweight championship. Miocic has turned into a wrecking machine since that defeat, finish Mark Hunt, Andrei Arlovski, Fabricio Werdum and Alistair Overeem in succession. He told the media recently that he had learned quite a bit from that loss to dos Santos, which was his first-ever five-round fight.