BOSTON — UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, by his own admission, is better at playing the media game than he used to be.
But several years into this, and at the height of his fame, he still can’t force himself to get into the trash-talk business.
At Wednesday’s UFC 220 media day, Miocic compared the endless focus on drama in MMA to one of the most notorious talk shows in the history of television.
“It’s like The Jerry Springer Show, man,” Miocic said. ”You know, it’s all about the soap opera.