If you look closely you can see him in the background, there in those photos from the aftermath of the UFC 226 main event, the ones that pop up every time we start discussing the seemingly inevitable heavyweight title clash between champion Daniel Cormier and Brock Lesnar . It’s the only time the two have been in the cage together, so it makes sense that we keep using it, but it must sting for Stipe Miocic to look and see himself there in the background, already melting into the scenery, already in the process of being discarded and forgotten. It’s not fair, as Miocic has pointed out several times. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The man who set the record for most consecutive UFC heavyweight title defenses lost exactly one fight, and now the division is moving on without him. Partly it’s his own fault.
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Don’t look now, but the UFC heavyweight division is leaving Stipe Miocic behind – MMA Junkie