{"id":264984,"date":"2017-12-04T07:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264984"},"modified":"2017-12-04T07:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:29:26","slug":"champ-stipe-miocic-reacts-francis-ngannous-big-win-expected-heavyweight-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/stipe-miocic\/champ-stipe-miocic-reacts-francis-ngannous-big-win-expected-heavyweight-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Champ Stipe Miocic reacts to Francis Ngannou&#8217;s big win, expected heavyweight title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in the co-main event of the absolutely wild UFC 218 card, surging heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou picked up the biggest win of his career thus far, punching Alistair Overeem&#8217;s head into outer space, where it is believed to have settled somewhere among the comets and asteroids of the Kuiper Belt. With this absolutely destructive victory, the French-Cameroonian juggernaut seems to have positioned himself for a fight with dominant UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic.<\/p>\n<p>While Ngannou could easily be the most dangerous challenger of Miocic&#8217;s reign thus far, the champ doesn&#8217;t seem to be particularly worried. Shortly after Ngannou&#8217;s big UFC 218 win, he took to Twitter with a simple, yet clear message: &#8220;And Still.&#8221; In other words, he expects to leave a prospective battle with Ngannou with the belt still wrapped tightly around his midsection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And still&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwZPxLIXpL\">pic.twitter.com\/IwZPxLIXpL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stipe Miocic (@stipemiocicufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stipemiocicufc\/status\/937673602366926850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With his win over Overeem, Ngannou rocketed to 6-0 in the UFC. In this span, he&#8217;s dished out public executions of Luis Henrique, Curtis Blaydes, Bojan Mihajlovic, Anthony Hamilton, Andrei Arlovski, and of course, Overeem. The hulking heavyweight&#8217;s overall record now stands at 11-1.<\/p>\n<p>Miocic, meanwhile, is riding high on a ridiculous string of first-round knockouts, having recently clubbed Andrei Arlovski, Fabricio Werdum, Alistair Overeem and Junior Dos Santos into unconsciousness. This streak of first-round wins was preceded by an absolute mauling of Mark Hunt, which was finally called to a stop after four and a half ultra-violent rounds. He&#8217;s 17-2 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Though the date of this potential Miocic vs. Ngannou scrap is still far from set, UFC President Dana White recently suggested it<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/video-dana-white-date-stipe-miocic-francis-ngannou\/\"> could headline UFC 220 in Boston<\/a>, taking the card&#8217;s top spot from Daniel Cormier&#8217;s planned light heavyweight title defense against Volkan Oezdemir.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think comes out on top in a fight between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou? Is Miocic&#8217;s confidence justified?<\/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 4\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in the co-main event of the absolutely wild UFC 218 card, surging heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou picked up the biggest win of his career thus far, punching Alistair Overeem&#8217;s head into outer space, where it is believed to have settled somewhere among the comets and asteroids of the Kuiper Belt. 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