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UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou Fight Card and Rumors<\/p>\n

The octagon will return to Boston on January 20 for the promotions UFC 220 fight card.<\/p>\n

The event is headlined by a heavyweight title fight featuring current champion Stipe Miocic taking on surging division contender Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n

Stipe Miocic will enter the contest riding a five-fight winning streak, his latest being a first-round TKO victory over Junior dos Santos this past May<\/a> at UFC 211 in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n

The UFC’s heavyweight champion has scored stoppage victories in each of his past five bouts, finishing Alistair Overeem<\/a>, Fabricio Werdum, Andrei Arlovski, Mark Hunt and the aforementioned “JDS” in that time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Francis Ngannou is coming off a brutal fist-round knockout victory over Alistair Overeem which took place earlier this month at UFC 218 <\/a>in Detroit. <\/p>\n

That victory extended Ngannou’s current win streak to ten in a row, with six of those victories coming under the UFC banner.<\/p>\n

“The Predator” has scored stoppage victories in all six of his UFC bouts, with four of those finishes coming in the very first-round.<\/p>\n

The co-main event of UFC 220 will feature a light heavyweight title fight between current champion Daniel Cormier and top contender Volkan Oezdemir.<\/p>\n

“DC” has not competed since UFC 214 in August, where he suffered a third-round TKO loss to Jon Jones (watch that here<\/a>). The fights outcome was later changed to a no-contest after Jon Jones tested positive for banned substances.<\/p>\n

Prior to his rematch with “Bones” at UFC 214, Cormier had strung together four straight victories including two submission wins over knockout artist Anthony “Rumble” Johnson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As for Volkan Oezdemir, the 28-year-old has wasted “No time” since making his promotional debut in February.<\/p>\n

Volkan earned a split-decision victory over Ovince Saint Preux and then scored back-to-back first-round knockout victories over Misha Cirkunov and most recently Jimi Manuwa at UFC 214<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get the latest UFC 2220 fight card, which currently includes nine fights, below:<\/p>\n

Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou – Heavyweight title fight
\nDaniel Cormier vs. Volkan Oezdemir – Light heavyweight title fight
\nThomas Almeida vs. Rob Font – Bantamweight
\nKyle Bochniak vs. Brandon Davis – Featherweight
\nCalvin Kattar vs. Shane Burgos – Featherweight
\nDustin Ortiz vs. Alexandre Pantoja – Flyweight
\nIslam Makhachev vs. Gleison Tibau – Lightweight
\nGian Villante vs.\u00a0Francimar Barroso – Light heavyweight
\nMaryna Moroz vs. Jamie Moyle – Women’s strawweight <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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