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‘Let’s f*cking go’: Daniel Cormier posts cryptic tweet, suggests Stipe Miocic rematch for UFC heavyweight title is shut
Daniel Cormier seems close to his ultimate UFC exit technique after suggesting on Twitter that his last profession bout, a rubber match with present heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, is near being agreed.
Miocic took to social media late on Sunday, sharing a picture of him strolling to the cage with accompanying textual content saying, “The time has come. Who’s prepared?!“
And judging by his response hours later, Cormier appears greater than able to reply the decision.
The 2 consensus finest heavyweights on the UFC roster have been linked to a struggle for months. It will be the third assembly between the 2 fighters, with the scores presently tied one apiece since their fights in 2018 and 2019.
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Cormier, who misplaced the heavyweight title of their most up-to-date bout final August, has lengthy acknowledged that he’ll entertain only one extra struggle in an athletic profession which noticed him chosen for 2 US Olympic groups in addition to profitable world titles in each the sunshine heavyweight and heavyweight classes within the UFC.
Nonetheless, plans for closure to the Cormier-Miocic rivalry have been slowed by a persistent eye harm presently being handled by the champion in addition to considerations in regards to the viability of holding fights throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The UFC, although, have been among the many world’s first sports activities to reestablish their occasion schedule and with the Covid-19 considerations apparently bypassed (for now, at the very least), a path has been cleared to unscramble the logjam atop the heavyweight division.
And Miocic says he’s prepared.
The time has come. Who’s prepared!?#SM #AndStil pic.twitter.com/vF8TftZOpq
Cormier’s reply, which got here Monday morning, additionally contained of the fighter approaching the octagon, together with the textual content, “LFG” – or “let’s f*cking go” – and got here hours after he initially reacted to Miocic’s message by saying, “You are performed.”
The delay in arranging the Cormier-Miocic decider has apparently irked a few of the different fighters within the dialog for heavyweight supremacy. Francis Ngannou additionally responded to Miocic, telling the champion and his challenger that, “It’s been nearly a yr now so cease combating on social media and signal the contract in your desks and let’s transfer on.”
It’s been nearly a yr now so cease combating on social media and signal the contract in your desks and let’s transfer on #UNCROWNEDCHAMP https://t.co/CqlvgUA0ez
— Francis Ngannou (@francis_ngannou) June eight, 2020
The Cameroonian fighter is the presumptive subsequent man as much as problem the winner of the eventual rubber match after weaving a path of destruction by the UFC’s heavyweight competitors in current fights.
For Ngannou, it appears a case of ‘if’ not ‘when’ – however he’s clearly rising weary of the melodrama forward of what can be personal probably redemptive struggle with Miocic, who totally outclassed the inexperienced title challenger greater than two years in the past.
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