{"id":264936,"date":"2017-12-03T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264936"},"modified":"2017-12-03T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:18:10","slug":"video-dana-white-date-stipe-miocic-francis-ngannou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/video-dana-white-date-stipe-miocic-francis-ngannou\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White gives possible date for Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, in the co-main event of the stacked UFC 218, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/dana-white-high-praise-francis-ngannou\/\">surging<\/a> French heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou picked up the best win of his career thus far, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alistair-overeem\/alistair-overeem-issues-statement-following-brutal-ko-loss-francis-ngannou\/\">knocking out the always dangerous Alistair Overeem<\/a> in the very first round.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, the streaking contender seems to have set himself up for a shot at UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. Speaking to TSN&#8217;s Aaron Bronsteter post-fight, UFC President Dana White confirmed that Ngannou will get the next shot at the belt, and suggested that the fight could headline UFC 220 this January 20 in Boston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dana White says there&#8217;s a chance Ngannou and Stipe Miocic fight at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC220?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC220<\/a> in Boston and that there are no longer contractual issues with Miocic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0gWWt0lzZB\">pic.twitter.com\/0gWWt0lzZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronbronsteter\/status\/937208465189195776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As White explains, if this Miocic vs. Ngannou fight does land in Boston, it&#8217;ll take headlining honors over the card&#8217;s Daniel Cormier vs. Volkan Oezdemir light heavyweight title fight.<\/p>\n<p>With this crushing win over Alistair Overeem, Francis Ngannou moved to an impressive 11-1 overall. His 6 most recent wins have all occurred in the UFC\u2019s Octagon, where he has levelled Luis Henrique, Curtis Blaydes,\u00a0Bojan Mihajlovi\u0107, Anthony Hamilton, Andrei Arlovski and now Overeem.<\/p>\n<p>Miocic, meanwhile is 17-2 in sum. He\u2019s recently authored destructive stoppages of Mark Hunt, Andrei Arlovski, Fabricio Werdum, Alistair Overeem, and most recently, the former champ Dos Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think wins a UFC heavyweight title fight between champ Stipe Miocic and surging contender Francis Ngannou? Do you want to see this fight at UFC 220 in Boston?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, in the co-main event of the stacked UFC 218, surging French heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou picked up the best win of his career thus far, knocking out the always dangerous Alistair Overeem in the very first round. 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