Stipe Miocic outworked Daniel Cormier to remain the heavyweight champion at UFC 252 on Saturday at the Apex in Las Vegas, Yahoo sports informs.
Miocic and Cormier had met twice before. Cormier won their first match-up, surprisingly knocking Miocic out at UFC 226 on July 7, 2018, to become a two-division champion. Miocic turned the tables with a TKO stoppage at UFC 241 on Aug. 17, 2019, reclaiming the heavyweight belt.
According to Yahoo sports, their trilogy fight at UFC 252 was widely considered the battle to determine who is the greatest heavyweight mixed martial artist of all time. It was Miocic that would ultimately be able to stake that claim at the end of the night.
