I will not miss Miocic

[Ivancho]

What an awful performance he had. He was slow, lethargic, and completely predictable. This guy is partly responsible for the disaster in the heavyweight division by living rent free in the top 3 forever

 

[mirellale]

Yeah. He looked as if he was 42 years old there

 

[USA!USA!]

I will not miss the current version of Stipe, but he is still a top 3 (some have him as 1) HW of all time in the UFC.

 

[NoSmilez]

He needed that last paycheck. No hate against Stipe.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Great fighter. Stipe is criminally underrated due to a lack of popularity. It's a shame the UFC treated him bad till the end. He should have stayed retire though. Sometimes the money isn't worth your dignity

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

He's a prizefighter getting that final prize.

 

[J'Ghasta]

It was always annoying how non-committed he was to the game. Was always more interested in fighting fires.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

(Derek) Clearly Stipe did ok

 

[Black Blood]

Prime Stipe was fun enough. I've always thought that a meat-and-potatoes, boxer-wrestler style can work just fine and Stipe proved it.

I hate the UFC and their immediate rematches though, so his series with Cormier really sucked the air out of the HW division for a few years though.

 

[Clark Rogers]

For a place that consistently whines about other people's wallets it sure has some weird reactions to folks taking one more - biggest in their career - payday.

 

[One MMA Fan]

I will miss him, he made the UFC HW division better. Of course that was a few years ago but age gets them all in the end.

Of course he took the big MSG HW tittle fight, who wouldn't ? If he had PPV points I hope he made bank and rides into the sunset.

 

[Ibm]

He fought Jon; he had never fought someone like that before. Stipe is a boxer and wrestler; if he cannot catch the guy, he is limited, that's what happens. He looked great, IMO.

 

[OldBoy91]

He's a good guy, and good on him fir getting one final big payday. Did seem that's all he was there for though.

He looked OLD last night though, not even 42 old, he looked like 58 year old Tyson did the night before, maybe worse even. Zero movement, zero defense, zero desire to be there, gunshy as hell. Absolutely shot to shit.

Jon landed something like 100 of 120 strikes against him. Thats not just a career high for Jon, but it blows his previous best strike % out of the water, at 37 years old and looking slow as Derrick Lewis. If that doesn't tell you everything about where Stipe is at, I don't know what will.

I miss prime Stipe, not whatever that was last night.

 

[Hostile1]

That was a sham by the duck Jones. He doesn't want to fight anyone he could risk losing to.

 

[jooohnmatrix]

Felt sorry for Stipe. Think Francis avoiding the trilogy broke his heart as he had been so cultured in giving Francis the rematch. I wouldn’t be surprised now that Stipe has retired if Francis comes crawling back to the ufc with his beggars hand out again.

When in his prime Stipe was almost like a god, he could hang with anyone. I’ll miss him too.

 

[Bearknuckle]

UFC sold you guys the fight and you bought it. Stipe hasn’t been relevant in 4 years and hadn’t fought since 2021 in a fight which he got knocked out cold.

 

[Marko Polo]

For someone with a relatively big following it’s odd that Stipe has never cared about his fans. This last “performance” was a testament to that

 

[613]

This is what I fucking hate about fans. When a fighter loses to a hated fighter, fans immediately shit on them and act like they suck

 

[Spiderbite]

It was always annoying how non-committed he was to the game. Was always more interested in fighting fires.

Because fighting fires provides a pension and healthcare.
I'm sure the benefits of being a firefighter far outweigh those of being a "UFC contractor".

 

[Fergelmince]

If only he had grabbed the cage, grabbed Jones' gloves, punched Jones in the back of the head 24X, then some shertards would be singing his praises the morning after a loss.