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Stipe Miocic is starting to look like an unstoppable heavyweight champion. Since winning the belt with a first-round knockout of Fabricio Werdum, he’s now defended it with first-round knockouts of Alistair Overeem and Junior dos Santos. \u00a0And given that his latest win \u2013 the dos Santos KO \u2013 was in May, he’s now starting to get the itch to get back in there.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, Miocic explained that he’d like to get back in there in December or January.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re talking,\u201d Miocic said (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019m probably looking at December or the end of January.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a great management team and they\u2019re doing everything they\u2019re supposed to,” he added. “We\u2019re talking, it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Miocic then weighed the option as far as possible opponents go. In his mind, there are currently four heavyweights who really stand out: Francis Ngannou<\/a>, Alistair Overeem<\/a>, Alexander Volkov, and Cain Velasquez.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are a lot of guys that are there already,” he said. “In the heavyweight division anything can happen on any night, you know? That\u2019s what\u2019s scary about the division: no matter how good you are there is always somebody that can beat you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know I\u2019m not the UFC. If I was a matchmaker I wouldn\u2019t be fighting, but [Ngannou] is a very tough guy,\u201d he continued.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been running through people and he\u2019s getting better in every fight. He\u2019s definitely a great up and comer and he\u2019s got a great future ahead of him.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cListen, whoever the UFC wants me to fight, I\u2019ll fight \u2013 Overeem, or whoever\u2019s next\u2026Volkov\u2026he\u2019s a tough guy too, but I have a hard time saying his name for whatever reason. You know, or Cain, whoever they say I\u2019m not going to back down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Velasquez, in particular, interests Velasquez, though he’s not likely to fight again this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt would have been great to fight him because it would have been an amazing fight between us too,\u201d he said of Velasquez. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re both wrestlers, we both push the pace, we\u2019ve got great cardio and we like to stand and bang \u2013 it would have been an exciting fight. Unfortunately, he\u2019s hurt right now. I hope he gets better because he\u2019s a super nice guy.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who do you want to see Stipe Miocic fight next?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/19\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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