This trilogy really made me dislike DC, from denying stipe the immediate rematch to acting like the only reason he lost the 3rd was an eyepoke but never mentioned the billion times he eyepoked stipe during the trilogy
Stipe got the rematch . Every time he lost a belt his next fight was for the belt. Dc fought someone in between when he was 40 meanwhile when Francis lost to stipe he had to knock out 5 guys in a row to get a rematch and stipe wasn't keen on the rematch
@@KyranS97you think Stipe “deserves” the title? I don’t think he even deserves the title shot, no one does while Tom aspinal is the interim champ. Stipe should’ve gotten a title shot after they did champ vs interim champ.
Finally someone giving Stipe some credit, i feel like because the UFC likes DC so much, and then Ngannou, Stipe never really got credit for beating them both
@@outis439-A They did. It wasn't until the later disputes that they had a falling out. But cannot deny the love-fest prior to. Francis was to be their next big cash-cow. Clear as day.
Ufc has given stipe a title shot every time he lost a title fight they give him his due. He's a great fighter but look how he treated Francis after beating him vs what he expects when he loses the belt.
@@gochaavtandilashvili8372DC got poked once ( and fun fact, when DC got poked look at his fingers..'' he was going to poke stipe's eyes then he got countered) Stipe got poked like 30-40 times
@@rejectxz Calls him out when he's fourty freaking six years old coming off a KO loss lmao. While there's an ENTIRE INTERIM CHAMPION!!?? Waiting to fight him. Most pussy shit I've ever seen in my life. Jon has 0 claim to goat status after this nonsense honestly I just want the fight to happen so he can leave the sport already.
I miss seeing Stipe in the ring. Sad we lost out on any new fights the last few years with him. Definitely an underrated fighter, he had great ring awareness and adaptability. Plenty of power, even on the back foot. I believe Stipe would not have lost to Cormier if not for that brutal eye poke that left him effectively fighting with 1 eye. But being the warrior he is, he barely even mentioned it, didn't whine, just got back to training, came back and took the belt back. Epic. Love the way Stipe handles himself. You don't see much of that these days.
One of the few true warriors remaining in the sport. No talk at all, just straight up focus on the fight that's coming. Such a complete fighter like that is a delight to the fans who really pay attention to the small details of the sport.
That second fight was nuts. Just two guys standing flat-footed in front of each other, hand-fighting and trading blows. Such a unique contest between them. Neither of them were afraid of getting hit. God damn, I hope Stipe spoils the party against Jones... If Stipe wins, I don't know what I'll do with myself. A freakout of truly epic proportions will ensue. I feel bad for my neighbors.
You can clearly tell that spare tyre around dc midsection was his biggest issue, affected his movement and fitness big time. He could’ve been the ufc GOAT
Stipe is one of the heavyweight greats and it always pisses me off how DC was given a free pass to stick his fingers in Stipe's eyes for 3 fights. 3 fights and not one serious warning or point deduction for walking with his fingers pointed forward like a fat Frankensein's monster.
I just wish he'd fought earlier than he is now. The last of these fights will be almost 4.5 years old when he enters the ring again. Miocic is one of the greats, no question. But he lost his last fight, badly, and really should've had a tune up fight before going for the championship again.
Really good adjustments, you know as good as he kinda is Stipe just doesn't have that aura of invincibility alot of heavyweight fighters have. 🤔 like he gets hit alot... like ALOT.
DC was so far past his prime at this point that this was just stat padding. His best win going into this is Derrick lewis who is .500 since with wins against cans.
This is why Stipe is the perfect final recital, to Jon Jones' legacy. There is hardly anyone that makes sense. Aspinall, anyone else like Pereira, even Blachowicz. Are from a newer time, or aren't even connected to Jon's most active time. This is why Stipe makes sense, Stipe is from that time, Stipe has beaten DC, Stipe's has ties to that time ago. For Jon Jones to fight Aspinall, it's like your older grandfather not knowing how to use a phone and opting for the newspaper instead. The grandfather is from a different time and interacts with things from that time, anything not from that time will simply add confusion, and unnecessary complication. The grandfather is Jon jones, and the phone is Tom Aspinall. You're not going to give your phone to grandpa, you're going to keep your phone, and offer the home phone, and or get the newspaper. Because you understand grandpa is content with just picking the newspaper, so you should be happy too, because it's the simple things in life. Like not taking matchups seriously.
It’s a shame dc couldn’t wrestle as heavy as he used to in his 40s his back was so bad he couldn’t consistently shoot on stipe he had his one high crotch and never attempted a takedown again from my memory. Still walked stipe down like a fucking tank until he got finished which is so crazy. Dc if he was a few years younger beats stipe 8/10 times imo. On another note as long as stipe doesn’t somehow get 1 shot or taken down and mauled by jones he has a chance to finish Jon that stipe boxing is serious and if gus and Reyes could box u up, the last thing to go at heavyweight is power and stipe definitely still has 1 shot power and crisp boxing.
DC only won because he was poking the fuck out of stipes eyes.. even did it in the second fight. His entire gameplan was stick his arms and fingers out and try to poke his eyes the entire night.
Also, this at one 1:37, can someone explain to me why dc didn't just slam stipe right away? Carrying him for that long must've been so tiring, is there a tactical reason to keep stipe up that long?
Probably because Stipe grabbed his leg. Same thing happened when Bob Sapp tried to slam Big Nog for the second time. Nogueira grabbed his leg to avoid being separated from Sapp' body, that's why the slam wasn't as powerful as the first one when Bob's hips where far away.
I'm more impressed with dc here than anything, a fat 40 year old 5'11 guy being able to beat the heavyweight goat once and give him one more very tough fight in the first rematch is crazy, no other UFC fighter have had that much success being that much shorter and fatter than the opponent, Kevin gastelum is the closest one I can think of and he never became champion
Blind any heavyweight then let a middleweight /Welterweight fight him and see what happens. Nothing impressive except gave a good fight in the second but still resorted to eye pokes. DC should have never won the HW title over Stipe
Hey Dana, tell me again why the ref isn't stepping in when the fighter is unconscious and everyone feels they need to keep fighting? Oh that's right. It's because you don't care at all about the fighters.
They were both poking eyes and this is after dc was poked in eyes from jon who used roids, like......can u blame them? Sports a joke still in 2024...... needs massive change
The problem with fighting Jon Jones though is the same problem Stipe will have When Jones fights Aspinall....Jon doesn't Box with guys. So how is Aspinall or Stipe going to catch Jon ? Neither Aspinall or Stipe throws enough Kicks to Close the Distance.
Daniel Cormier is no slouch. He was best at his time in countless organizations as heavyweight. Stipe makes mistakes as he relies at blocking punches with his granit chin. Put that point on chin we all have hit with right power and angle ends every one. That said expext war against Jones both will be hurt bur Stipe surely is harder strikers,dictates pace at will when in mode. If we see same version or better of Stipe vs Francis 1 Jones will be over. Jones woukd be sleeping after taking Francise's power punches. Stipe took them and demaged the Hype train. Everyone can say whatever and say Francis didn't have no ground game, to bad he knew its MMA and trained it. Launched Alistair into orbit... Stipe is legend as even immediately aksing for rematch(3rd) fight. Supposedly Grancis was to greedy and to skme its all about money not legacy. Stipe if retires can look back and said he was rhe best Heavwy weight with most title defenses in UFC history as of still. Cropower!!!
@@Chopper51138 DC is more worn from his wrestling career and the weight cuts. Imagine if he had been able to chain together the boxing and wrestling like he did with Barnett.
Dc was in his prime though 😂 he was more skilled than in his prime and also stipe was only two years younger and even when dc was young stipe after making adjustments was superior to Cormier and Cormier wouldn’t have done anything to him.
This was prime cormier. Not everybody have their prime at young age, he was running through everyone except Jones and stipe. Stipe is simply the better fighter stop coping.
After seeing this video of stipe having trouble against an almost retired Cormier I fully can say with all confidence that Jon Jones is gonna destroy stipe just to show yall he still very much can destroy and I mean destroy whoevers considered his best comp at that moment
This trilogy really made me dislike DC, from denying stipe the immediate rematch to acting like the only reason he lost the 3rd was an eyepoke but never mentioned the billion times he eyepoked stipe during the trilogy
yeah DC is a pos disguised as a friendly guy
Stipe got the rematch . Every time he lost a belt his next fight was for the belt. Dc fought someone in between when he was 40 meanwhile when Francis lost to stipe he had to knock out 5 guys in a row to get a rematch and stipe wasn't keen on the rematch
Underrated / Under Appreciated, The greatest heavyweight of all time. Stipe Miocic ladies and gentlemen.
Could have not said it better.
Not sure who is watching UFC these days but seems people with no clue about fighting or life experience.
@@Patriotx-gx4ce the casuals get the limelight but us OG’s know who deserves that title
You mean ngannou? Wasn't he like Stipe last fight?@@KyranS97
@@KyranS97you think Stipe “deserves” the title? I don’t think he even deserves the title shot, no one does while Tom aspinal is the interim champ. Stipe should’ve gotten a title shot after they did champ vs interim champ.
@ don’t get me wrong I’m rooting in every way for Tom (I’m a scouser) but give credit where credit is due for stipe
Finally someone giving Stipe some credit, i feel like because the UFC likes DC so much, and then Ngannou, Stipe never really got credit for beating them both
You think the UFC likes Ngannou? Seriously?
@@outis439-A are u forgetting the stipe ngannou 1 press conference ? ufc was 1000% biased
@@outis439-A They did. It wasn't until the later disputes that they had a falling out. But cannot deny the love-fest prior to. Francis was to be their next big cash-cow. Clear as day.
Ufc has given stipe a title shot every time he lost a title fight they give him his due. He's a great fighter but look how he treated Francis after beating him vs what he expects when he loses the belt.
2 was an amazing fight. DC was walking down STIPE which is CRAZY. DC is a competitor at the end of the day and he indeed has a dog in him
Rather, he has a hippo in him
stipe almost lost his eyes
DC was so dirty in their fights
In that post fight press he had a lot of scratches around his eyes, it feels like he was fighting a cat
Same can be said for DC in the third fight
@@gochaavtandilashvili8372DC got poked once ( and fun fact, when DC got poked look at his fingers..'' he was going to poke stipe's eyes then he got countered)
Stipe got poked like 30-40 times
0:38
A lotta behind the weight, alotapunchbehindtheweight, alotaalotta O-H!!! Shoutout Mojahed 😆
Stipe had just woken up from a clean knockout. Give the guy a break
Man this guy was good 10 years ago before Jon started calling him out.
Stipe would have butchered jones in his prime.
@@rejectxz Calls him out when he's fourty freaking six years old coming off a KO loss lmao. While there's an ENTIRE INTERIM CHAMPION!!?? Waiting to fight him. Most pussy shit I've ever seen in my life. Jon has 0 claim to goat status after this nonsense honestly I just want the fight to happen so he can leave the sport already.
@@rejectxzEhhhrrmm…butchered Jones when he was in his prime…? Good night sir.
*You forgot to show the eyepoke in the first fight which lead to the finish.* And the intentionally 20+ eyepokes across the trilogy
Nasty eye-poking game plan from Cormier.
learned that from them jones' fights
I miss seeing Stipe in the ring. Sad we lost out on any new fights the last few years with him. Definitely an underrated fighter, he had great ring awareness and adaptability. Plenty of power, even on the back foot. I believe Stipe would not have lost to Cormier if not for that brutal eye poke that left him effectively fighting with 1 eye. But being the warrior he is, he barely even mentioned it, didn't whine, just got back to training, came back and took the belt back. Epic. Love the way Stipe handles himself. You don't see much of that these days.
Stipe was so well rounded for heavyweight. I think he might perform better than everyone thinks next month
One of the few true warriors remaining in the sport. No talk at all, just straight up focus on the fight that's coming. Such a complete fighter like that is a delight to the fans who really pay attention to the small details of the sport.
Seeing Stipe throw a spinning elbow (at 6:55) was like seeing Jon Jones reach out at his opponent with his hands closed. Completely out of left field.
That second fight was nuts. Just two guys standing flat-footed in front of each other, hand-fighting and trading blows. Such a unique contest between them. Neither of them were afraid of getting hit.
God damn, I hope Stipe spoils the party against Jones... If Stipe wins, I don't know what I'll do with myself. A freakout of truly epic proportions will ensue. I feel bad for my neighbors.
DC using a really old fashioned Boxing cross guard was quite surprising, walking round like a 90s Foreman.
Fr i didnt even notice, thought he was using some type of long guard
Hes a big foreman fan and actually trained with him
The king
Imagine he sleeps Jon
Greatest mma moment ever
Will definitely be in the top 5 greatest moments in MMA history, in my humble opinion. God damn, I hope it comes true.
@ top 5? What beats stipe sleeping Jon and riding off in to the sunset with dc ngannou and jones on his kill list lol
@@MMAproAtGOLF Ngannou practically ended Stipes Careers. Jon's will do the same bud ❤ bask in it
@ shut up you absolute melt
Without eye poke DC never get championship belt
Exactly
People forget man!
Stipe looks like he could be Woody Harrelson's Jacked and Scary younger brother.
prime stipe would manhandle jones!!
No he got better the longer he is in the game. He got a lot of losses in his prime
Jones by eye pokes in the second
dc had no answer to stipes adjustments at all
Btw, the third fight in a trilogy is called a Rubber Match
Mma fans have very short memory,no one has had 4 tittle defenses at H.W. im very excited for this upcoming title fight
Stipe looked like he'd been attacked by a rabid cat. Cormier is about as overrated as it gets.
I don’t know if he’s overrated if he’s a goat lol
You can clearly tell that spare tyre around dc midsection was his biggest issue, affected his movement and fitness big time. He could’ve been the ufc GOAT
A lotta punch behind that weight
Stipe is one of the heavyweight greats and it always pisses me off how DC was given a free pass to stick his fingers in Stipe's eyes for 3 fights. 3 fights and not one serious warning or point deduction for walking with his fingers pointed forward like a fat Frankensein's monster.
90% of the comments "eye poking"
90% of DCs fight.. Eye pokes
So it's only fair
I just wish he'd fought earlier than he is now. The last of these fights will be almost 4.5 years old when he enters the ring again.
Miocic is one of the greats, no question. But he lost his last fight, badly, and really should've had a tune up fight before going for the championship again.
Cormier to just couldn't adapt and switch things up when he needed to like Stipe did the second fight.
Stipe was great... Jon was great to... saddly they both out of their prime in their upcoming match.
Really good adjustments, you know as good as he kinda is Stipe just doesn't have that aura of invincibility alot of heavyweight fighters have. 🤔 like he gets hit alot... like ALOT.
"Undisputed UFC" lol
DC was so far past his prime at this point that this was just stat padding. His best win going into this is Derrick lewis who is .500 since with wins against cans.
This is why Stipe is the perfect final recital, to Jon Jones' legacy. There is hardly anyone that makes sense. Aspinall, anyone else like Pereira, even Blachowicz. Are from a newer time, or aren't even connected to Jon's most active time. This is why Stipe makes sense, Stipe is from that time, Stipe has beaten DC, Stipe's has ties to that time ago.
For Jon Jones to fight Aspinall, it's like your older grandfather not knowing how to use a phone and opting for the newspaper instead. The grandfather is from a different time and interacts with things from that time, anything not from that time will simply add confusion, and unnecessary complication. The grandfather is Jon jones, and the phone is Tom Aspinall. You're not going to give your phone to grandpa, you're going to keep your phone, and offer the home phone, and or get the newspaper. Because you understand grandpa is content with just picking the newspaper, so you should be happy too, because it's the simple things in life. Like not taking matchups seriously.
It’s a shame dc couldn’t wrestle as heavy as he used to in his 40s his back was so bad he couldn’t consistently shoot on stipe he had his one high crotch and never attempted a takedown again from my memory. Still walked stipe down like a fucking tank until he got finished which is so crazy. Dc if he was a few years younger beats stipe 8/10 times imo. On another note as long as stipe doesn’t somehow get 1 shot or taken down and mauled by jones he has a chance to finish Jon that stipe boxing is serious and if gus and Reyes could box u up, the last thing to go at heavyweight is power and stipe definitely still has 1 shot power and crisp boxing.
DC the eye poker
DC is built like a baby shaped tank.
If DC can have this much success with Stipe , imagine how much Jon Jones will slaughter Stipe . Impredicting a 1st or 2nd round finish for Jones .
🤣🤣
DC only won because he was poking the fuck out of stipes eyes.. even did it in the second fight. His entire gameplan was stick his arms and fingers out and try to poke his eyes the entire night.
Also, this at one 1:37, can someone explain to me why dc didn't just slam stipe right away? Carrying him for that long must've been so tiring, is there a tactical reason to keep stipe up that long?
Maybe to get him away from his corner? The corner can help a lot just giving instructions on the ground.
Probably because Stipe grabbed his leg. Same thing happened when Bob Sapp tried to slam Big Nog for the second time. Nogueira grabbed his leg to avoid being separated from Sapp' body, that's why the slam wasn't as powerful as the first one when Bob's hips where far away.
DC has such a weird boxing style looks like he knows nothing about boxing
What about the eye pokes???
DC seems like a bad guy. Dirty fighter.
I'm more impressed with dc here than anything, a fat 40 year old 5'11 guy being able to beat the heavyweight goat once and give him one more very tough fight in the first rematch is crazy, no other UFC fighter have had that much success being that much shorter and fatter than the opponent, Kevin gastelum is the closest one I can think of and he never became champion
Would be more impressive if he stopped eye poking like he's Jones.
Blind any heavyweight then let a middleweight /Welterweight fight him and see what happens. Nothing impressive except gave a good fight in the second but still resorted to eye pokes. DC should have never won the HW title over Stipe
Hey Dana, tell me again why the ref isn't stepping in when the fighter is unconscious and everyone feels they need to keep fighting? Oh that's right. It's because you don't care at all about the fighters.
Dc got eye poked for a change. Didn’t much care for it I’m sure.
They were both poking eyes and this is after dc was poked in eyes from jon who used roids, like......can u blame them? Sports a joke still in 2024...... needs massive change
My favourite fighter ever. He beat Ngannou at the UFC who does that
The problem with fighting Jon Jones though is the same problem Stipe will have When Jones fights Aspinall....Jon doesn't Box with guys. So how is Aspinall or Stipe going to catch Jon ? Neither Aspinall or Stipe throws enough Kicks to Close the Distance.
Jones beat D C way worse
I so hope stipe beats jones….coming from a Jon jones fan
Daniel Cormier is no slouch.
He was best at his time in countless organizations as heavyweight.
Stipe makes mistakes as he relies at blocking punches with his granit chin.
Put that point on chin we all have hit with right power and angle ends every one.
That said expext war against Jones both will be hurt bur Stipe surely is harder strikers,dictates pace at will when in mode.
If we see same version or better of Stipe vs Francis 1 Jones will be over.
Jones woukd be sleeping after taking Francise's power punches.
Stipe took them and demaged the Hype train.
Everyone can say whatever and say Francis didn't have no ground game, to bad he knew its MMA and trained it.
Launched Alistair into orbit...
Stipe is legend as even immediately aksing for rematch(3rd) fight.
Supposedly Grancis was to greedy and to skme its all about money not legacy.
Stipe if retires can look back and said he was rhe best Heavwy weight with most title defenses in UFC history as of still.
Cropower!!!
DC beat the living hell out of Stipe
And lost 2 out of 3
And he got the same treatment
If dc was in his prime he would wipe the floor with this guy
U gotta be joking
Stipe is only 2 years younger
@@Chopper51138 DC is more worn from his wrestling career and the weight cuts.
Imagine if he had been able to chain together the boxing and wrestling like he did with Barnett.
Dc was in his prime though 😂 he was more skilled than in his prime and also stipe was only two years younger and even when dc was young stipe after making adjustments was superior to Cormier and Cormier wouldn’t have done anything to him.
This was prime cormier. Not everybody have their prime at young age, he was running through everyone except Jones and stipe. Stipe is simply the better fighter stop coping.
Stipe is a huge cheater in mma , eyepoker
0/10 rage bait... Try again
After seeing this video of stipe having trouble against an almost retired Cormier I fully can say with all confidence that Jon Jones is gonna destroy stipe just to show yall he still very much can destroy and I mean destroy whoevers considered his best comp at that moment