This is a fight that makes me sad there were no fans, two legends going at it in a super competitive rivalry with one of them retiring afterwards, would’ve been very special with fans.
@@undefined5083 I don’t speak like a bitch bruh I don’t know what aolr means just type the whole thing kid god you remind me of my sons way of talking bruh, let me explain in a better way. In that time the wwe offered its fans live stream and that stream would feature the person in the the background on a big screen along with other streamers making it look like if there was a crowd of fans in attendance
@@anthonygarcia3922 yeah man, did you see Stipe's face after the 2nd fight? Looks like his face got repeatedly raked by a bobcat! The ref in this fight actually gave Cormier a warning, too.
@@captainmarvel2821 no shit, but do you understand what im saying. The resume of losses that these fighters had came from future past or present champions
Stipe doesn't get enough credit for this trilogy. I know this wasn't peak DC, but to be KOd in the 1st fight, be getting outclassed in the 2nd fight & turning it around masterfully to win by finish himself was special. Then to finish it off he outclassed DC over 5 rounds. Was phenomenal to watch.
To the 2 people taking away from Stipe's win y'all do realize Stipe isn't young either right? Or that going into this fight he had surgery on his eye. Stop acting like some young buck in his prime beat up a helpless old man
@@rafayg7376 lol agree, that’s how I can tell people have either barely watched their trilogy or have extreme short term memory loss but how Damn dirty DC was fighting was insane; those eye pokes were the scummiest fouls DC could of pulled and he got away with MOST Of them.
@@TheKickboxingCommunity the non-crowd arena just adds horror on every Gaethje's punches. some of Ferguson punches hits hard too don't get me wrong especially the late uppercut in the final seconds of the second round.
man i forgot how great of a fight this was. one of my favs. That eye poke was brutal but DC has poked a lot of eyes himself too. A fitting end to the eyepoke trilogy
@@richardr951 if jon bones did that he be called cheater for life or if dc did that. But this blue eye cracker does it oh its okay its just pay back, why isnt it pay back when bones does it
Miocic has an adamantium chin. He gets blasted in the face and just shrugs it off. Which lets you know how hard Ngannou must hit in order to have knocked him out cold.
No ,he never have an admantium chin as got knocked down multiple times in many fights, but he had the heart and an iron will to get back into the fights ,even from the verge of loosing. A true champion 🏆 .
@@tanujpatnaik1946 having a good chin means being difficult to put out cold, not just never been getting dropped, everyone knows there is a HUGE difference between a good punch drop that results in a standup 30 seconds later and then a good punch that puts you out on your feet.. i really really really really don’t understand how some of you people cant seem to get this through your dense skulls.
@@HbVki Having a great chin means getting hit a lot of times before getting KOed ,eg// Mark Hunt ,Nate Diaz ,Yoel Romero,Tai Tuivasa or not getting KOed at all eg// Ngannou, Prime Tony Ferguson. Coming to Stipe , he got finished by Stephen Struve, DC ,even Alisters punch almost Koed him. Still I never mentioned Stipes chin being bad,I just said Stipes chin is not that great as most his victories were a result of him being skillful.
@@tanujpatnaik1946 Stipe actually has a hard chin, considering the class he's fighting in. Almost all HWs have immediate sleep power. And "almost KOed" is NOT KO'd. You're either KO'd or you're not...there's no almost.
*Stipe had numerous eye surgeries because mr. potato head kept intentionally eye poking him.* Go back and watch the second fight, it’s so obvious. EVERY SINGLE JAB Cormier sticks his thumb into Stipe’s eyes. Then he leaves his hands out fingers extended. Dirty cheat.
@@mikehunt7586 so dc gets shit for the eye poke in the first fight, but the worst eyepoke in the trilogy which came from stipe, and dc never even got time to recover, is praised?
These 2 had such an underrated trilogy 2 and 3 should be evidence enough to the people that think Jon is gonna walk through Stipe that jon is in for a FIGHT
But Junkie "poke" Jones' 2 biggest tactics are Sleepay Mumblic's 2 biggest weaknesses : eyepokes and PEDs (as shown by Daniel Cornea, Trencis HGHgannou and Steyefan Struve) PictoJon is gonna come in with a whole pharmacy in his veins, fingers extended with sharpened fingernails, ready to thrown low blows at any moment
Welllll Clearly even the SLOW MO CAM wasn't good enough for you to clearlyyy see that stipes arm hits dcs arm as stipe begins to throw the punch thus moving cormiers hand Upwards from stipes shoulder towards his face ! Thank God your not an announcer judge or referee lol
@@takerfan4ever he did that shit against Jones and he never poked him once open you're damn eyes in the first fight the dude had his bare thumb in Miocic eyes
I'm a huge fan of DC and still am but that eye poke was 100% deserved. DC was always sneaky with those and Stipe had enough and shoved half his finger in his eye socket.
You are no DC fan. To this day I am sick and tired of hearing about numerous eyepokes from DC which were never there. The first fight DC poked stipe in the eye which looked super intentional. After that no eyepokes were there. At least not intentional. Even knuckles to the eye which stipe reacted were termed as eyepokes God knows why... Moreover couple of eyepokes (unintentional) from stipe were there as well (before the 3rd fight). If someone insists about DC poking multiple times then please put time stamps in their fights which is in ufcespanol official channel.
@@neerajbholan5369 bro watch ALL his fights with stipe lmfao EVEYONE SEEN it why do you think anyone will buy what your saying watch it again or at least watch a yt video on all of dcs eye poked on stipe
@@captaincaveman471 i am not assuming. It's for people like you to do. I have watched that fight a lot of times and i didn't find that amount of eye pokes. So for those who are making these wild accusations just show it to me with time stamps. And nobody has done the thing except blabbering and cussing me. And people do lie because they hate DC for his jones saga which is just hilarious.
I’m not a huge UFC fan, but Cormier was a great champion and was able to bow out with his head held high. He had nothing to prove and was on top for a long time. It’s a shame his last fight was during Covid in an empty arena.
He would not have won this one if not for the horrid eye poke he gave DC. He completely shut his eye and impacted the remainder of the fight drastically. Cheaty win but still a win.
@@canuzun44 And DC would have never won the first fight without his eye poke. he even did it multiple times in the 2nd fight, cant blame Stipe for getting one back
People who give credit for eye pokes are so weird. Neither of them should eye poke, revenge or not. Especially if it's closes your eye and the ref doesn't pause the action
@@TBE99 LOLFUCKNO. Did you not see the 10+ eye pokes that DC administered in a masterclass of eye poking? If not, you must have been eye-poked yourself! 🤣
A perfect example that stipe's head movement and footwork can be on point. He did got hit, yes he's turning 40 but with the proper time preparation he'll be a problem.
@@trentejames9773 he’s a bit too traditional with it sometimes i think, gets hit way too often with unorthodox non-boxing strikes, just my opinion. I may be wrong
Cormier had to set a record with the amount of eye pokes landed during his three fights against Stipe. They will never count them up or take notice of it but damn I'd say he got at least 37 eye pokes in.
I have no idea why everyone was fixated on the right hand at the end of the first round. Stipe stumbled but giving the round to Cormier just for that is ludicrous.
@@zippo_muk9254 OH HE’S HURT Goes on to win a five round fifth decision. It’s kind of a pet peeve of mine. Costa/Vettori. Costa hit one good high kick in the second round. Vettori blocked it with his ugly cinder block head and no sold it. Everyone thought that that head kick won Costa the second round, even though he was loosing the round. Whittaker/Romero. Whittaker hits a head kick. Romero takes it, heaves, takes a long ass time to stabilize and breathes in like a floppy air bag. “ROMERO EATS IT LIKE A TIC TAC.”
Idk if yk how scoring works but whoever does the most damage wins the round. Cumulative damage doesn’t beat instant damage and Cormier had the most damaging strike in that round. Giving dc that round isn’t ludicrous if you actually know ufc scoring rules.
@@zippo_muk9254 bruh tf are you talking about he got rocked with a punch that made his legs buckle and he fell into the cage. Him being off balance was the direct effect of him being cracked with a solid punch.
The Greatest part of the pandemic was silent ufc events. Jesus Christ, I never realized just how hard Daniel Cormier hits at heavyweight until watching and listening to those shots.
You could tell they were holding back, i caught a few moments where stipe was gonna throw a high kick and didnt. You might think this makes the fight boring, it makes it better in my eyes as this is a clear show of pure respect and honor.
I remember watching this and being so amazed with the fact that DC didn’t get finished especially after the eye poke. He showed true warrior spirit and the heart of a champion in his last fight
DC is a POS. The only reason he EVER beat Stipe were eye pokes. DC watched tape of Stefan's win over Miocic and decided that was his only hope. Seriously. DC is a POS, I've got no respect for him whatsoever and I can't figure out why anyone does.
He's quite resilient at taking a punch, provided he sees shots coming. All his KO losses came when he didn't see a shot coming, although Ngannou caught him with such a perfect check hook it probably wouldn't have mattered even if he saw the punch coming, as Ngannou has freak power and Miocic ran straight into it.
@@dr.wolfgang3256 it was a fluke when he beat stipe, stipe proved that by spanking Daniel twice. he was never a light heavy champ either, u agree with that obviously
What a fight! Damn, I forgot about that nasty eye poke from Miocic. I know it wasn't intentional, and DC had one of his own. Great performance by both men, true warriors in and out of the cage.
But seriously , in slomo it looks like Stipe's finger goes into his eye up to the middle knuckle and gets caught in the corner of his eye socket. How the hell did DC keep fighting.
As a massive fan of Stipe, watching DC bitch about ONE eyepoke in this fight after he poked Stipe over 20 times in the last fight and Stipe NEVER complained, is absolutely hilarious to me.
In both the second and third fight... Both eyepokes (against both of them) were deemed by the referee as "punches" , when they are clearly pokes. Well aware that its superhard for the referee to see it and it happens extremly fast and often on the side where the referee aint. UFC can fix this easy by either allowing technology that detects eyepokes or "eyepoke" referee that only check for that stuff, and can fast and easy "pause" the fight for investigaion and rest for the fighter that got eyepoked. The "5 min rule" is pure bs though, some injuries takes longer time to recover from. If its not the main event, the fight should be restarted in its entierty after the main event with both fighters fresh, and maybe 1 fighter coming in to that fight with -1 point due to the eyepoke. There are lots that can be done, but noone does anything... Just waiting for when one of Danas favorites gets eyepoked out of a championship for this madness to end and things to start change.
These are probably the 2 best heavyweight fighters ever. Stipe is unbelievably underrated and one can only imagine what dc would've been if he started earlier with mma.
@@thegreg9800 i don't believe Ngannou is a good fighter at all (skill wise) He's just so unbelievably powerful he can negate the skill that Stipe had in their 2nd bout. I have to give him credit for the wrestling skill he showed against Gane. But i think DC would destroy him like he did with Derrick. Especially before his back problems.
These 2 guys to me represent the class of the UFC. Tough as nails. Consummate professionals, courteous and classy after wins and losses. Young professional athletes should take note of the way they conducted their business.
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This is a fight that makes me sad there were no fans, two legends going at it in a super competitive rivalry with one of them retiring afterwards, would’ve been very special with fans.
4real...never thought about that. I agree.
Fr like kids who didn’t watch it live can’t watch this and have the same hype as the first 2 fights when they had fans cheering
All for nothing
@@kilrain_dev nothing.
Cope
Stipe had enough of them Eye pokes. He blast one perfectly
DC is the biggest hypocrit in the ufc
@@risottonero4501 yes
Can't stand DC...
Stipe the eye poke cheat and panic wrestler. Jones needs to wear goggles
@@TBE99 jones needs to wear goggles? Pretty ironic considering Jones is probably the worst eye-poker in the ufc
No fan noise really makes you realize how brutal this sport is.
For real, they could of at least incorporated the idea the WWE came up with during COVID. How they showed fans watching and reacting live was genius.
@@user-wc4vg7hh3n ?wym bruh its aolr fighting
@@undefined5083 I don’t speak like a bitch bruh I don’t know what aolr means just type the whole thing kid god you remind me of my sons way of talking bruh, let me explain in a better way. In that time the wwe offered its fans live stream and that stream would feature the person in the the background on a big screen along with other streamers making it look like if there was a crowd of fans in attendance
And how tough these guys are.
Stipe got tired of all DCs eye pokes... so gave him the ultimate one
lol it was so hard
Stipe the eye poke cheat and panic wrestler. Jones needs to wear goggles
@@TBE99 DC eye poked him in all 3 fights & stipe is the cheat? lmaoo
@@anthonygarcia3922 yeah man, did you see Stipe's face after the 2nd fight? Looks like his face got repeatedly raked by a bobcat! The ref in this fight actually gave Cormier a warning, too.
@@TBE99get a life, Jones the worst eye poke cheat 😂
Crazy to think that DC’s only losses were from Jones and Miocic
The only other fighters that lost to only champions was GSP and Sean Sherk. If im not mistaken, Cain Velasquez too
@@daredevilofdallas He lost to Francis when he wasn’t champion
@@captainmarvel2821 no shit, but do you understand what im saying. The resume of losses that these fighters had came from future past or present champions
That why he one of the best. Definitely top 5 . He only lose to HW goat and basically mma 🐐
Chad Mendes has only lost to current and future champs
Stipe talks like Jesses friend Badger from Breaking Bad 🤣
"ithdhfhrhhsh" - Stipe
Yeah. Stipe for sure has a speech imparement. But still a legend 💪🏆
Heavy brain damage
so accurate lmao
not even close lmao
Stipe doesn't get enough credit for this trilogy. I know this wasn't peak DC, but to be KOd in the 1st fight, be getting outclassed in the 2nd fight & turning it around masterfully to win by finish himself was special. Then to finish it off he outclassed DC over 5 rounds. Was phenomenal to watch.
He beat a 41 yr old dc lol cmon now. Nice win but nothing to be bragging about
@@MrSturdystratus yea and dc was never the same after the back surgery. Still very good but not what he was
To the 2 people taking away from Stipe's win y'all do realize Stipe isn't young either right? Or that going into this fight he had surgery on his eye. Stop acting like some young buck in his prime beat up a helpless old man
@@MrFredstt For real no one talks about DC fucking up Stipe's vision permanently. That's how he got the knockout in the first fight too.
@@rafayg7376 lol agree, that’s how I can tell people have either barely watched their trilogy or have extreme short term memory loss but how Damn dirty DC was fighting was insane; those eye pokes were the scummiest fouls DC could of pulled and he got away with MOST Of them.
The sound of those punches and kicks my god,truly shows the brutality of MMA this is why i love watching fights in the apex.
It was when they had no fans I miss it you should watch Poirier VS Hooker that one sounds so good 💯🔥
Or Ferguson vs Gaethje
@@TheKickboxingCommunity the non-crowd arena just adds horror on every Gaethje's punches. some of Ferguson punches hits hard too don't get me wrong especially the late uppercut in the final seconds of the second round.
Don't forget to add heavyweights hit with a different kind of power
Has anyone told you how much you look like GSP?
Stipe throwing spinning shit in this fight was wild
Need to see more of it
Spinning shit, and also that superman punch
I’ve never actually seen this fight in full yet. Insane output for a heavyweight fight
Jorge Masvidal vs. Ben Askren
@@patricklutherwinchester4260 ?
@@patricklutherwinchester4260 lmfao what?
@@patricklutherwinchester4260 ???
@@smurat i dont think youre understanding bro marlon moraes vs aljamain sterling
I really hope Stipe gets bigger if he returns. He looked like a Middleweight against Francis.
I mean who doesn’t
Any lean heavyweight would look like a MW next to Francis, but true, Stipe can definitely get bigger.
@@erickfernandez8236 Gane, Curtis, Lewis
what you guys think about there being a ''super heavyweight'' division ?
@@garibay711cod they should just remove the limit on heavyweight like in boxing
man i forgot how great of a fight this was. one of my favs. That eye poke was brutal but DC has poked a lot of eyes himself too. A fitting end to the eyepoke trilogy
Man I was feeling down and this comment made me belly laugh.
@@MorganMoogle 😎
Glad Stipe got him in the end with a truly vicious poke
@@richardr951 if jon bones did that he be called cheater for life or if dc did that. But this blue eye cracker does it oh its okay its just pay back, why isnt it pay back when bones does it
DC eye poked stipe in the 1st round of this fight lol.
Miocic has an adamantium chin. He gets blasted in the face and just shrugs it off. Which lets you know how hard Ngannou must hit in order to have knocked him out cold.
No ,he never have an admantium chin as got knocked down multiple times in many fights, but he had the heart and an iron will to get back into the fights ,even from the verge of loosing. A true champion 🏆 .
@@tanujpatnaik1946 Great comment, but you kinda made my point: he’d get hit and get back up. Many others would not cause they’d be asleep.
@@tanujpatnaik1946 having a good chin means being difficult to put out cold, not just never been getting dropped, everyone knows there is a HUGE difference between a good punch drop that results in a standup 30 seconds later and then a good punch that puts you out on your feet.. i really really really really don’t understand how some of you people cant seem to get this through your dense skulls.
@@HbVki Having a great chin means getting hit a lot of times before getting KOed ,eg// Mark Hunt ,Nate Diaz ,Yoel Romero,Tai Tuivasa or not getting KOed at all eg// Ngannou, Prime Tony Ferguson.
Coming to Stipe , he got finished by Stephen Struve, DC ,even Alisters punch almost Koed him. Still I never mentioned Stipes chin being bad,I just said Stipes chin is not that great as most his victories were a result of him being skillful.
@@tanujpatnaik1946 Stipe actually has a hard chin, considering the class he's fighting in. Almost all HWs have immediate sleep power. And "almost KOed" is NOT KO'd. You're either KO'd or you're not...there's no almost.
*Stipe had numerous eye surgeries because mr. potato head kept intentionally eye poking him.* Go back and watch the second fight, it’s so obvious. EVERY SINGLE JAB Cormier sticks his thumb into Stipe’s eyes. Then he leaves his hands out fingers extended. Dirty cheat.
He learned from the greatest eye poker in ufc history jbj
@@BRUCiE997 I love DC, but he definitely deserves the eye poke that Miocic gave to him in this fight. Stipe had seen enough, or has he? lol.
Mr. Potato Head 😂😂
Jones showed him the way you 👀
I love DC but he got that karma poke in this fight so he got what he got
You know it's personal if an MMA match turns into a boxing match.
Nd it's great to watch ❤
No kick boxing match
Two absolute legends and exemplary champions who represented the sport with respect and honor. You love to see it 👏👑
Yet the newer fans think it's cool to talk shit on DC nowadays 🤦♂️😂 MMA fans are so fickle its annoying at times
@@josiahgonzalez942 DC likes to run his mouth a lot tho. Was great watching him get destroyed by Stipe twice after he cheated to win the first one.
@@josiahgonzalez942 let's be honest, DC's dana privilege got him into the Hall of fame. he was never a champion.
@@marcGOAT1 comments like these dont even deserve a legit response
@@mikehunt7586 so dc gets shit for the eye poke in the first fight, but the worst eyepoke in the trilogy which came from stipe, and dc never even got time to recover, is praised?
for how light of a heavyweight Stipe is, it amazes me how good he was
Just like Frank Mir before he put on muscle.
He isn't light of a hw, he only started to be light after stipe dc 1 I believe
Before that he was usually around 245 - 250 pounds
Just like jon jones
0:29 Was the referee subtly warning against the eye pokes or have I just been smoking too much weed? 🤣
Idk but the fact he rubbed his left eye and Cormier's left was the one that got poked 😭
@@donniechant1357 777 illuminati confirmed!!!!11!!1
Both dudes as tough as they come. Crazy shots they took for heavy weights
These 2 had such an underrated trilogy
2 and 3 should be evidence enough to the people that think Jon is gonna walk through Stipe that jon is in for a FIGHT
If Jones and Miocic have an even playing ground come fight night I think Stipe beats him
Stipe might be showing his age in the next fight. Would love him to win though.
are they fighting?
But Junkie "poke" Jones' 2 biggest tactics are Sleepay Mumblic's 2 biggest weaknesses : eyepokes and PEDs (as shown by Daniel Cornea, Trencis HGHgannou and Steyefan Struve)
PictoJon is gonna come in with a whole pharmacy in his veins, fingers extended with sharpened fingernails, ready to thrown low blows at any moment
@@mrinaljena3 but if we take into account DC's 13 eyepokes and Jones steroids, those wins aren't as impressive
He can’t win when he gets eye poked. Great win by Stipe. The greatest to ever do it.
Greatest at heavyweight for sure
The greatest UFC heavyweight to ever do it*
Jon Jones will beat his ass soon
3:19 *DC was trying to eye poke Stipe, and ended up getting his just desserts.*
Welllll Clearly even the SLOW MO CAM wasn't good enough for you to clearlyyy see that stipes arm hits dcs arm as stipe begins to throw the punch thus moving cormiers hand Upwards from stipes shoulder towards his face ! Thank God your not an announcer judge or referee lol
@@trentejames9773 You are actually stupid if you think Stipe's arm hit and moved DC's.
@@trentejames9773 Doesn’t matter, all of his eye pokes in the second fight were clearly intentional
@@sweetteaaddict7181 no.. they were not.. dc utilizes long guard to make up for his range disadvantage..
@@takerfan4ever he did that shit against Jones and he never poked him once open you're damn eyes in the first fight the dude had his bare thumb in Miocic eyes
I'm a huge fan of DC and still am but that eye poke was 100% deserved. DC was always sneaky with those and Stipe had enough and shoved half his finger in his eye socket.
You are no DC fan. To this day I am sick and tired of hearing about numerous eyepokes from DC which were never there. The first fight DC poked stipe in the eye which looked super intentional. After that no eyepokes were there. At least not intentional. Even knuckles to the eye which stipe reacted were termed as eyepokes God knows why... Moreover couple of eyepokes (unintentional) from stipe were there as well (before the 3rd fight). If someone insists about DC poking multiple times then please put time stamps in their fights which is in ufcespanol official channel.
@@neerajbholan5369 bro watch ALL his fights with stipe lmfao EVEYONE SEEN it why do you think anyone will buy what your saying watch it again or at least watch a yt video on all of dcs eye poked on stipe
@@nirogalactoid8398 ok i will accept that i am wrong. Just provide me just 5 eyepokes across 3 fights with time stamps.
@@neerajbholan5369
You can go find them yourself instead of assuming everyone is lying.
@@captaincaveman471 i am not assuming. It's for people like you to do. I have watched that fight a lot of times and i didn't find that amount of eye pokes. So for those who are making these wild accusations just show it to me with time stamps. And nobody has done the thing except blabbering and cussing me. And people do lie because they hate DC for his jones saga which is just hilarious.
the bias in the commentary is my fav part it’s so funny lmfao
cant wait for stipe's return
gonna knock Jon's head off
GOAT
Y'all think he'll really fighting jones for a return fight or nah? GOAT of LHW vs the GOAT of HW
Really hoping he wins
Im fearful he will return as a punching bag
It’s impressive That miocic was able to become a firefighter in Ohio not speaking English
lol
Larone beats both dudes. Goat 🐐
These are the best highlights on the platform. Thank you!
I am in total awe at the number of killer shots both those guys were able to give AND take ..
I’m not a huge UFC fan, but Cormier was a great champion and was able to bow out with his head held high. He had nothing to prove and was on top for a long time. It’s a shame his last fight was during Covid in an empty arena.
correct me if im wrong but after all was said and done between their fights, stipe was the one who had to have surgery on his eye from the pokes
Yes he did
He would not have won this one if not for the horrid eye poke he gave DC. He completely shut his eye and impacted the remainder of the fight drastically. Cheaty win but still a win.
@@canuzun44 DC didnt need eye surgery from a stipe poke and stipe did from DC. that is the point
@@brandonbrown1284 that doesnt matter. Dc was affected worse in this fight as you can clearly tell.
@@canuzun44 And DC would have never won the first fight without his eye poke. he even did it multiple times in the 2nd fight, cant blame Stipe for getting one back
Really hoping Stipe gets a W when he comes back but I'm worried about his chin health after all these years of taking damage
Will always love Stipe
Stipe is an eye poke cheat
@@TBE99 lmfao bro eye poked once and dc did it plenty of times
@@TBE99 u are a cringe casual fanboy, dc started all the eyepokes in the 3 fights lol
3:18 that's called karma lmao
Honestly DC deserved that eye poke.
People who give credit for eye pokes are so weird. Neither of them should eye poke, revenge or not. Especially if it's closes your eye and the ref doesn't pause the action
@@ortega9156 nah he should’ve been eyepoked
@@ortega9156 they are probably doing that because dc eye poked him more than 20 times in their second fight
Maybe that's the reason
@@faridabouhi9500 Blame the ref for not giving DC a penalty or pausing the fight.
So funny hearing him complain about eye pokes after all the eye pokes he gave Stipe in the trilogy. And Stipe never bitched about it
Mark Goddard’s matter of fact “Daniel you got punched” always gets me
Bro I was pissed off for Daniel. Like, he knows what happened
Dude's a shitty ref. DC clearly got poked in the eye there
@@langleyh8243 youtube takes down comments with swear words, now.
Ref: I need the hands closed
DC: Yes, yes.
The next highlight DC trying to tickle Stipes eyes.
Stipe the eye poke cheater
@@TBE99 LOLNO
@@unixfool LOl yes. Stipe the dirty eye poke cheat and still got knocked out cold lmao
@@TBE99 LOLFUCKNO. Did you not see the 10+ eye pokes that DC administered in a masterclass of eye poking? If not, you must have been eye-poked yourself! 🤣
@@unixfool HAHAHAH CAP... Stipe eye poked DC in every fight and nearly made DC permanently blind... Dirty cheat Stipe bum 🤣
Stipe made the proper adjustments & found the formula to shut down DC. Underrated fight IQ imo. Stipe is the heavyweight king 🤴
This is the best highlights of this fight👍 thank you 🙏 for this 🙏🙏
The ref rubbing his eyes when asking for a good clean fight was beautiful foreshadowing
Larone could you upload some videos of entire trilogies like the press conferences, embedded, and fight highlights of the all of the fights.
I'm pretty sure he has already but might be wrong
4:04 that was the most aggressive grunt I’ve heard
One of the more compelling trilogies we've had the pleasure of viewing
Swangin and bangin man. Respect to both legends
DC deserved that eye gouge from stipe after making him get surgery
It’s almost like both of them were given new chins for this fight. They both cracking each other and nobody would get KOed…🤷♂️👍🏽👊🏽
Honestly miss the no crowd fights.
Something nostalgic and super primal about them.
I personally miss the crowd less fights. To hear the gloves smacking adds another dimension to the fights.
Larone coming through like usual
A perfect example that stipe's head movement and footwork can be on point. He did got hit, yes he's turning 40 but with the proper time preparation he'll be a problem.
I mean he is a GOLDEN GLOVE BOXER lol His boxing footwork n head movement BETTER be greater than a life time wrestlers
@@trentejames9773 he’s a bit too traditional with it sometimes i think, gets hit way too often with unorthodox non-boxing strikes, just my opinion. I may be wrong
jones gonna wrap him up like a burrito no problem.
@@skouria3135 οκ
@@skouria3135jones couldnt warp a bandage.had a great resume and now became a joke.
Larone I really appreciate the fight highlights but I think what sets this channel apart is adding the build up for the fights.
As Rogan has mentioned before, without a crowd you find just how fucking powerful those shots are.
This was amazing to see how DC got completely outclassed, he really let himself go
He suffered a serious back injury prior to his fight with derrick lewis and it changed his fighting style
41 yrs old tho
Let's see Stipe at that age
@@wdchaconpereira there’s no reason for him to fight anymore I think he retires after his next fight win or lose
@@Aquamatiic at least the Jones one and Francis I'd say
@@wdchaconpereira Well he's 40 now...
Stipe: hey DC here's some of your own medicine... You're welcome...
Dcs eye has never been the same. He literally moved his eye with that eye poke for life and he continued to fight. Crazy
He brought it on himself tbh.
Какой шикарный бой, куча мастерства
Stipe getting revenge on DC for that Popeyes song 🤣🤣
Stipe the eye poke cheater
Cormier had to set a record with the amount of eye pokes landed during his three fights against Stipe. They will never count them up or take notice of it but damn I'd say he got at least 37 eye pokes in.
Those liver punch was no joke.😂
I love hearing the hits rather than the crowd. So much more entertaining.
I have no idea why everyone was fixated on the right hand at the end of the first round. Stipe stumbled but giving the round to Cormier just for that is ludicrous.
Exactly, he was more off balance and got clipped as he was turning away.
@@zippo_muk9254 OH HE’S HURT
Goes on to win a five round fifth decision.
It’s kind of a pet peeve of mine.
Costa/Vettori. Costa hit one good high kick in the second round. Vettori blocked it with his ugly cinder block head and no sold it. Everyone thought that that head kick won Costa the second round, even though he was loosing the round.
Whittaker/Romero. Whittaker hits a head kick. Romero takes it, heaves, takes a long ass time to stabilize and breathes in like a floppy air bag. “ROMERO EATS IT LIKE A TIC TAC.”
Idk if yk how scoring works but whoever does the most damage wins the round. Cumulative damage doesn’t beat instant damage and Cormier had the most damaging strike in that round. Giving dc that round isn’t ludicrous if you actually know ufc scoring rules.
@@zippo_muk9254 bruh tf are you talking about he got rocked with a punch that made his legs buckle and he fell into the cage. Him being off balance was the direct effect of him being cracked with a solid punch.
@@nick4942 No. Stipe clearly won the round.
The Greatest part of the pandemic was silent ufc events. Jesus Christ, I never realized just how hard Daniel Cormier hits at heavyweight until watching and listening to those shots.
As sad as gaethje ferguson was the sound of the punches were amazing
I agree. Way better to watch fights without the mindless roar of a drunk, clueless audience
You could tell they were holding back, i caught a few moments where stipe was gonna throw a high kick and didnt.
You might think this makes the fight boring, it makes it better in my eyes as this is a clear show of pure respect and honor.
Stipe got his revenge with that eye poke, deserved
Jesus that eye poke from Stipe was disgusting but DC had that one coming for all the eye pokes he did on Stipe first.
I remember watching this and being so amazed with the fact that DC didn’t get finished especially after the eye poke. He showed true warrior spirit and the heart of a champion in his last fight
Dc bad back hurt him in this fight if he would have wrestled more easy win for him
I was amazed he got away with so many eyepokes, From 1-3 apparent refs never needed to look at this?
DC is a POS. The only reason he EVER beat Stipe were eye pokes. DC watched tape of Stefan's win over Miocic and decided that was his only hope. Seriously. DC is a POS, I've got no respect for him whatsoever and I can't figure out why anyone does.
This fight deserved a crowd.
I LOVE how you can hear every strike landing!!!
How tf was Stipe taking so many shots. That's some god tier chin unfortunately there's only so many nukes you could take from Ngannou.
He's quite resilient at taking a punch, provided he sees shots coming. All his KO losses came when he didn't see a shot coming, although Ngannou caught him with such a perfect check hook it probably wouldn't have mattered even if he saw the punch coming, as Ngannou has freak power and Miocic ran straight into it.
Stipe's chin and cardio were always his greatest weapon, his cardio probably comes from his firefighter training
Yeah firefighters can just walk into any sport lol
Two legends who both out on a master class performance. That was a close fight, but Stipe deserved a split decision over DC; very close fight.
When there is no crowd you really realise that they really are smacking each other, what they go through is incredible
That eye poke was a game changer for DC.
I would still pay to see #4
Now that DC is retired it really was an honor watching his fights the past decade. The battles with Jones and Stipe are legendary
the dude was never a real champ
@@marcGOAT1 yet slumped heavyweight champ make that make sense🧐 so how is he not a legitimate champion
@@dr.wolfgang3256 it was a fluke when he beat stipe, stipe proved that by spanking Daniel twice. he was never a light heavy champ either, u agree with that obviously
@@marcGOAT1 still slumped him nonetheless and defended the title once 😭
@@marcGOAT1 Was Sera vs GSP a fluke too? Is every win a loser avenges a fluke?
Hearing Joe hold back his tears at the end of his interview with DC got to me.
After that eye poke in round 3, it's amazing DC's eye didn't fully close.. was still super gnarly regardless 😖
What a fight! Damn, I forgot about that nasty eye poke from Miocic. I know it wasn't intentional, and DC had one of his own. Great performance by both men, true warriors in and out of the cage.
Dc had like 7 in the first two fights on Stipe. Stipe had 2 total in 3, I believe.
i am 100% sure Miocic did it on intention after DC poked his eyes few times.
@@InFernoKnight95I’d believe it. He said he had to get eye surgery after one of DCs eye pokes. I forget if it was the 1st or second fight.
But seriously , in slomo it looks like Stipe's finger goes into his eye up to the middle knuckle and gets caught in the corner of his eye socket. How the hell did DC keep fighting.
dc looks funny at heavyweight
Jones, Stipe and Francis are the top 3 heavyweight GOATs in UFC
As a massive fan of DC this is probably the most heartbreaking fight of all time.
He deserves losing, hes an eye poke cheater.
Eye poking scum
Impressive fighter but he deserved to lose an eye bisping style for the shit he pulled against stipe
As a massive fan of Stipe, watching DC bitch about ONE eyepoke in this fight after he poked Stipe over 20 times in the last fight and Stipe NEVER complained, is absolutely hilarious to me.
@@scrappy1416the one eye poke had way worse than any DC landed and literally gave Stipe opening to win the last 2 rounds.
Best trilogy fight of all time
nah.cain vs jds,poirier vs conor ,couture vs lidell,gsp vs hughes, edgar vs meynard etc
@@borklaser7291 Poirier vs conor and liddell vs couture definitely weren't as good 😂
@@borklaser7291 neither was gsp vs Hughes lmfao
COVID era was the best having no audience I could hear all the coaches and strikes
Can someone help me with the name of the track at the 5:13.
In both the second and third fight... Both eyepokes (against both of them) were deemed by the referee as "punches" , when they are clearly pokes.
Well aware that its superhard for the referee to see it and it happens extremly fast and often on the side where the referee aint.
UFC can fix this easy by either allowing technology that detects eyepokes or "eyepoke" referee that only check for that stuff, and can fast and easy "pause" the fight for investigaion and rest for the fighter that got eyepoked.
The "5 min rule" is pure bs though, some injuries takes longer time to recover from. If its not the main event, the fight should be restarted in its entierty after the main event with both fighters fresh, and maybe 1 fighter coming in to that fight with -1 point due to the eyepoke.
There are lots that can be done, but noone does anything... Just waiting for when one of Danas favorites gets eyepoked out of a championship for this madness to end and things to start change.
With you on that and yes, you're probably right about what has to happen for it to change, sadly.
Agreed and there needs to be points taken for the first eye poke no more warnings. Fighters know it’s illegal accident or not
Rooting for stipe all over the trilogy. Eyepoking snake DC.
Stipe is a bum eye poke cheater
DC one of the greats only lost to the goats he needs more recognition
Hey. Havent got time to watch this video. Anyone know who won?
Bro I’ll never understand how DC made 205😂
💀fr the dude looks 305
Stipe has NO CHANCE vs GOAT BONES
I honestly forgot that there was a third fight between these two.
That eye poke from Stipe really messed up DC for the rest of the fight. DC still performed well after that, just not enough to win. Legends.
The commentary was just awful for this fight
These are probably the 2 best heavyweight fighters ever.
Stipe is unbelievably underrated and one can only imagine what dc would've been if he started earlier with mma.
Ngannou
@@thegreg9800 i don't believe Ngannou is a good fighter at all (skill wise)
He's just so unbelievably powerful he can negate the skill that Stipe had in their 2nd bout.
I have to give him credit for the wrestling skill he showed against Gane.
But i think DC would destroy him like he did with Derrick.
Especially before his back problems.
@@thegreg9800 if he Ko Jon Jones, he will become heavyweight GOAT
@@rush7313 so if he KOs a fighter who has never fought at heavyweight he is the goat of heavyweight?
Stipe the eye poke cheat and panic wrestler. Jones needs to wear goggles
Jesus what a brawl. Just one of those hits from either of those guys would put most people in a hospital
name of the bgm at the end?
stipe rules,my US fedor.
Nothing better than a cheating eye poker get eye poked (and beat up).
These covid era fights were so eerie what with no fans
These 2 guys to me represent the class of the UFC. Tough as nails. Consummate professionals, courteous and classy after wins and losses. Young professional athletes should take note of the way they conducted their business.
Man, DC looked like a shell of himself in this fight. Father time is truly undefeated.
he was actually doing good in the first round, but his body declined and it's quite obvious in this fight.
You can only get away with a bad diet for so long he needed to be lighter coming into this his cardio wasn’t there
Orrrr maybe Stipe is just the better fighter? Ever thought about that!!!!???
@@mikehunt7586 hmmm no.
Both are kind of a shell of themselves in this fight.