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Stipe Miocic states that dancing after he knocked out Daniel Cormier was “foolish” which he “should not have done that.”.
At 3:46 of the fourth, Miocic lands a left shovel hook, almost like an uppercut, to Cormiers body and after that follows with a right-hand man. Miocic hits Cormier with a body shot, angles out, then smashes a 1-2 combination– a jab followed by a best cross– at 3:59. The combination wobbles Cormier, which was the beginning of completion.
Miocic: I saw he recoiled, thats why I angled off. It took me 3 1/2 rounds to angle to my.
Cormier: The body shots were terrific. I constantly state, you can not take punches consecutively. If I wasnt so worn out, I might have fought back through that.
When he sees Cormier hurt, miocic pounces. He lands two more ideal hands and then a flurry of. Dean actions in and waves the bout off at 4:09 of the 4th. After 14 body shots and some big ending up mixes, Miocic gains back the heavyweight title.
Marinelli: Weve worked body shots since the day Stipe walked into the fitness center. Hes actually excellent at body shots. We want him to go to the body— we called it earlier.
Cormier: I think I fought the dumbest fight Ive ever combated. My hands were low. I was still a bit hurt after back surgery [in December 2018] There was a great deal of convenience in my training camp. And because of that convenience, I wasnt in shape. I had to have some genuine serious questions about myself recently with Bob Cook.
I got harmed to the body, then I got harmed to the head. Due to the fact that I was tired out, and one of the reasons I fell was. Ive been harmed worse in a lot of circumstances and battled my method back. Alexander Gustafsson injure me even worse than I was injured there. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson injured me bad. Even when Jon Jones kicked me in the head, I was harmed even worse and I was attempting to underhook him and resist. I remained in much better cardio shape.
Will Miocic go to the body earlier in the trilogy bout? Will Cormier be ready to counter?
Joe Rogan, UFC expert, during the broadcast: Wow! Those nasty left hands to the body started draining the tank and after that Stipe put it on and regained his title.
Cruz: That is not a simple thing to do. DC combated an extraordinary battle. The entire time he was ahead– until Stipe made the adjustments.
Marinelli: Theres a lot of emotion there. I could feel Stipes jubilance. It resembled, oh my gosh– amazing.
Marcus Marinelli was raiding the Octagon at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Aug. 17, 2019. His fighter, Stipe Miocic, was inside the cage, challenging Daniel Cormier for the UFC heavyweight title.
In the 4th round, with Cormier ahead on all the scorecards, Miocic landed a big body shot, followed by a jab and ideal hand to Cormiers jaw. Seconds later, the battle was over. Miocic won by TKO to recover the title he had lost to Cormier the previous summer.
When referee Herb Dean actioned in to call the fight, Marinelli lost it. He screamed in event and began knocking his hands versus the base of the Octagon as hard as he could. Then he realized something was awry inside his latex gloves.
The UFC 252 centerpiece will feature one of the most extremely expected trilogies in MMA history. Stipe Miocic, who holds the UFC record for consecutive heavyweight title defenses, will deal with former two-division champ Daniel Cormier on Saturday. Cormier won their very first conference and the heavyweight belt in 2018, and Miocic evened the score and regained the title the list below year. In the co-main occasion, increasing star Sean OMalley will look to transfer to 13-0 when he fulfills Marlon Vera.
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It was the replacement wedding ring he wears when coaching.
” I was so freakin pumped,” Marinelli stated. “I was smashing the important things with my hands, like F– yeah! I split my titanium ring in like four pieces. It was in my glove. I was believing like, how did that piece of metal get in here?”
On Saturday, 2 days short of the one-year anniversary of that success, Miocic will meet Cormier again for the heavyweight title at UFC 252 in a bout many have actually suggested could decide who is the best heavyweight in MMA history.
And the body shots that helped decide the 2nd leg of this trilogy function as an essential background for Saturdays main occasion. When he stated Miocic ought to go to the body earlier next time, Cormier even appeared to tease Miocic during an April interview with ESPNs Ariel Helwani.
ESPN spoke with the principals involved in the 2019 fight to get their direct viewpoint on the techniques that resulted in Miocic winning back the title.
Stipe Miocics body work showed definitive the last time he fought Daniel Cormier as he scored a fourth-round TKO. Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC through Getty ImagesEditors note: Answers were modified for length and clearness.
Marinelli: After the third round, were in the corner and I informed the other coaches, Listen guys, Ive got ta wake Stipe up. I kind of got up his ass a little bit and was like, Listen, youre much better than this motherf– er. I understood if we could get his mind to recognize what we should be doing, then I understand it would be great.
He stated, I understand youve got this, youve got to pull it out right now. Go for it.
Javier Mendez, long time coach of Cormier at American Kickboxing Academy: I remember myself and the other coaches Crazy Bob Cook, Rosendo Sanchez and Leandro Vieira going nuts, since DC went away from the plan in the 2nd round. He just punched it out with him and desired to knock him out. We were just pleading with him to go back to battling and doing the things that were working. He didnt listen. Hes really competitive. You cant tell DC, You cant beat me in this manner. Hell be like, Oh no? OK. Hell try to do what we state he cant. Truthfully, the vast majority of the time he does what we state he cant and hes effective at it.
It was Miocic, not his corner, who saw the opening to work Cormiers body, which battle IQ assisted him gain back the title. Joe Scarnici/Getty ImagesAt 1:55 of the 4th round, Miocic lands a body shot, a left hook near Cormiers liver. Its Miocics first body shot landed because the 2nd round. 5 seconds later on, Miocic lands another one.
Dominick Cruz, UFC expert, during the broadcast: Now hes thinking, 4th round, start assaulting the body. He observed DC cant move and evade those, and he cant counter. Hes simply got ta consume them.
Miocic: I got him once with a body shot in the second. I didnt want to do it too many times, because after a while the well runs dry. I hit him again, he recoiled.
Marinelli: You might tell he came out different for that 4th round. He went out there and began getting little much better vision on what was in front of him.
2 RelatedCook: You just understood the body shots were not good. Truthfully, Daniel battled the very first round the method that he trained. It was DC battling more mentally than wise.
Cormier: Body shots are body shots. But theyre not so disabling that you cant battle. He was hitting me in the stomach, but I was still bashing him in the face. Its not like I wasnt hitting him. I discovered them, obviously, however it wasnt like I was panicking, because he was striking me in the body.
After taking in numerous tough shots, Daniel Cormier was so focused on attempting to secure his body that he left his head open, and Miocic capitalized. Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC through Getty ImagesAt 2:22 of the 4th, Miocic lands a grazing left uppercut to Cormiers body. Five seconds later, Miocic lands another hook to the liver location, followed by another.
Cruz: That one hurt DC. Intelligent from Stipe there.
Marinelli: We were telling Stipe to continue to try to find the body shot. And we were looking truly tough for that right hand [to the head] after, since I could see Stipe struck him to the body and you might see Cormiers body position change. Cormier dips his head genuine good off of ideal hands and things, but it wasnt moving then. So we were trying to get Stipe to go to the head.
Miocic: Its all excellent coaching. They inform me what I need to see and things like that. Theyve helped me out throughout my career in practice, throughout sparring. They tell me, if you see this, you see that, change to this. You see openings, switch to this. You have plans. Sometimes those plans dont work and you go to another strategy.
Miocic lands a hard left hook to the body at 2:48 of the fourth round, followed by another 3 seconds later and another three seconds after that. Another difficult body shot comes at 3:13 and another at 3:18. Cormier returns with two hard punches to Miocics face, a right and after that a left.
Along with the rounds he battled, those shots included to DC being tired. When you get struck with those kinds of clean shots, I do not care how terrific of shape youre in. That lots of shots is gon na take a lot out of you.
Marinelli: You need to have a vision of your playing field. I believe Stipe lastly got a vision of that playing field. Sometimes when you get captured because chaos, you react with chaos. Thats type of what was happening for the very first three rounds.
In the fourth round, with Cormier ahead on all the scorecards, Miocic landed a big body shot, followed by a jab and ideal hand to Cormiers jaw. Joe Scarnici/Getty ImagesAt 1:55 of the 4th round, Miocic lands a body shot, a left hook near Cormiers liver. Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesAt 2:22 of the fourth, Miocic lands a grazing left uppercut to Cormiers body. At 3:46 of the 4th, Miocic lands a left shovel hook, practically like an uppercut, to Cormiers body and then follows with a best hand. Miocic strikes Cormier with a body shot, angles out, then smashes a 1-2 combination– a jab followed by an ideal cross– at 3:59.
