{"id":236021,"date":"2017-05-04T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=236021"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:52:08","slug":"stipe-miocic-explains-junior-dos-santos-rematch-will-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/stipe-miocic\/stipe-miocic-explains-junior-dos-santos-rematch-will-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Stipe Miocic explains why Junior dos Santos rematch will be different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-198-results\/ufc-198-results-stipe-miocic-vs-fabricio-werdum\/\">heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic<\/a> is currently gearing up for his upcoming title defense against Junior dos Santos this Saturday at UFC 211, where he is hoping to avenge his December <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-dos-santos-miocic-go-distance-fight-night-performance\/\">2014 loss to Dos Santos<\/a> that saw his 3-fight winning streak end. Now, with Miocic reigning as the heavyweight champion, he is looking to pick up his second straight title defense, which would tie him for the most heavyweight title defenses. <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his rematch with Dos Santos, Stipe Miocic spoke on the UFC 211 media conference call to explain what will be different about this fight with JDS, and why he will be the longest reigning heavyweight champion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stipe-Miocic-1.png\" alt=\"Stipe Miocic and Junior Dos Santos fight at UFC 211\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stipe-Miocic-1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stipe-Miocic-1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stipe-Miocic-1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stipe-Miocic-1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t really care about how many defenses I have; all I care about is winning,\u201d Miocic said on today\u2019s UFC 211 media conference call. \u201cI love what I do. I\u2019m going to keep winning. I train way too hard and sacrifice way too much to give it up. I\u2019m just different. I get better every fight. I\u2019m improving every fight and nothing is going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see what I did wrong in the fight,\u201d Miocic said. \u201cI did a lot of things wrong. It was my first five-round fight. Me and my coaches watched over that film to see what he did wrong, what I did wrong and what I did well and what he did wrong. We went over a lot of stuff, and we definitely have a better game plan in this fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Miocic will be riding a 4-fight win streak into his fight with Dos Santos, which has seen him KO his last four opponents, Dos Santos will be entering into the fight on a win, which was followed by a year-long hiatus from the former champ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JDS-Junior-dos-santos.png\" alt=\"Junior dos Santos\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JDS-Junior-dos-santos.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JDS-Junior-dos-santos-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JDS-Junior-dos-santos-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JDS-Junior-dos-santos-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who do you believe wins next weekend when these two heavy handed heavyweights step into the Octagon?<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 5\/4\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is currently gearing up for his upcoming title defense against Junior dos Santos this Saturday at UFC 211, where he is hoping to avenge his December 2014 loss to Dos Santos that saw his 3-fight winning streak end. Now, with Miocic reigning as the heavyweight champion, he is looking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":234249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10161,10253],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stipe Miocic explains why Junior dos Santos rematch will be different | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stipe Miocic explains why he will be the longest reigning heavyweight champion, and why his rematch with JDS will be different.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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