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The Stipe beaten by Ngannou was a broken old man with no knees and no hope of winning an MMA fight against a vaguely competent and not similarly broken fighter, just like the Stipe beaten by Jones. He's the Stipe who barely beat a 40 year old wrestler coming off of back surgery who moved like a beached whale while allowing the wrestling beached whale to shatter the record for most significant strikes landed in any UFC heavyweight fight (in under four rounds!).Well yeah. That's how it works when time passes and we have more information. We learned that Gane can't grapple and doesn't take it seriously against Francis. We also knew that Stipe was coming out of retirement for a massive paycheck.
The Stipe coming off the Cormier trilogy was a geriatric mess who never should have had a fight sanctioned. Title aside, he was every bit as useless an opponent for Ngannou as he was for Jones.