It looks like newly-crowned UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic isn’t going to have to wait long for his his next opponent, and the fight will go down in a place close to home as well.
News just arrived from that Miocic will take on surging contender Alistair Overeem in the main event of September 10’s UFC 203 pay-per-view (PPV) event from his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto broke the news on Twitter tonight:
Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem heavyweight title fight booked for UFC 203 on Sept. 10 in UFC’s first trip to Cleveland.
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) May 26, 2016
Miocic famously knocked out former champion Fabricio Werdum to rip the belt from “Vai Cavalo” in his native country of Brazil, and after he brought a title home to Cleveland, he’ll now try to defend his championship in the reverse scenario.
He’ll have his hands full with the bulldozing former DREAM, Strikeforce, and K-1 Grand Prix champion Overeem, who has knocked out downed four straight opponents including former champions Junior dos Santos and Andrei Arlovski by knockout, the latter of which he just stopped with a jaw-dropping jump kick in the lead bout of May 8’s UFC Rotterdam.
It’s a battle of elite-level strikers that could produce some massive fireworks on the feet. Who is your pick to emerge with the notoriously hard-to-defend UFC heavyweight belt?
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