“Retirement Fight for Stipe”: “Disrespectful” Stipe Miocic Fight News for International Fight Week Goes Viral Hours Before UFC 285

Former UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic has dropped a huge update about his return. The consensus UFC heavyweight GOAT is ready to step back into the cage and revealed more details of the same in a recent interview. The UFC heavyweight division is buzzing with excitement for Jon Jones‘ heavyweight debut. The 35-year-old will take on Ciryl Gane for the vacant title on March 4 in Las Vegas. With the title picture getting clearer, former champion Miocic is ready to jump back into the mix.

In a recent interview with former rival Daniel Cormier, Miocic revealed that he would fight in July. He communicated to DC that the plan was for him to fight the winner of Gane vs. Jones in July. The 40-year-old said, “Whoever it is, I’m taking on the winner next. They called me. In July. They said fight in international fight week. That’s what I was told.”

This could set up a massive fight between two divisional greats on Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic. The fans could also see a legend in Miocic take on young blood like Ciryl Gane. However, fans will have to wait till UFC 285 to see the full picture.

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Despite the announcement, many fans felt that Miocic did not deserve an immediate title shot. Many of them strongly voiced their frustration with the UFC’s decision.

Fans react to news of Stipe Miocic returning in July

Under a Reddit post announcing the same, fans vented about Miocic leap-frogging active contenders for another title shot. As much as many of them gave Miocic his due credit, they felt his title would be thoroughly undeserved.

Following are some of the reactions fans had:

• This feels like a retirement fight for Stipe … he’s not coming back for a contender fight, or to be cannon fodder… him vs Jones is a dream fight and if Stipe loses, it’s probably over.
• heavyweights need to start speaking up. If i was blaydes or pavlovich id be pi**ed off tbh.
• Ppl are saying that it would be disrespectful to not give stipe a title shot. What about the disrespect to blaydes and pavlovich who are actually taking fights to earn the shot?
• Stipe already got his free title shot when he lost to DC the first time, he got an immediate rematch. Is he supposed to get infinite title shots now? This is bullsh*t.
• If Jon wins I’m not against him fighting Stipe, but he shouldn’t get to jump over Pavlovich or Blaydes after not fighting for 2 years coming off a loss
• I love Stipe as much as anyone else, but this is complete bullsh*t. He’s not fought for 2 years, got dominated and KOd in his last fight, but still gets to jump the line over Blaydes vs Pavlovich winner?
• Alright I like stipe but wtf are the UFC doing? HW is just starting to get good and they’re just gonna hold up the whole division to give title shots to guys that haven’t won in the division in years or ever? Is this a f***ing sport or a show?

Miocic last entered the cage against Francis Ngannou at UFC 260 in March 2021. He lost the fight via a devastating knockout and has been out of action ever since.

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