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After 48 minutes and 42 seconds, the heavyweight trilogy between Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic is over. The former has officially retired, confirming his decision to hang up the gloves at 41 years of age, likely having clinched a place on the shortlist of greatest MMA fighters of all-time but falling resoundingly short of the top spot courtesy of multiple losses to Miocic and Jon Jones.