An ode to a fallen Winner

I assume at moments we as the MMA group get embroiled in the advertising and marketing equipment that is the UFC. We are taught to celebrate the winner of a bout, any bout. From curtain jerker to key party and to discard the loser. For the significantly less noteworthy fighter this is straightforward. But what is stunning is the outpouring of discard for a good winner like Stipe Miocic. On Saturday night Stipe took a struggle that not numerous choose willingly. Certainly there are concerns and critiques that will arrive from this functionality. Certainly, Francis N’Gannou looked each and every bit the winner he now is, in a dominant, ferocious functionality.

Most alarming on the other hand, is how historical past appears to be to be re-published in the blink of an eye, or the effects of a hammer fist. To nail shut the coffin that retains the historical past of Stipe’s run to the title, and his defence of it, is blasphemous. Stipe is 14-4 is the UFC. Not only is that a history that most fighters would aspire to attain. But to achieve this sort of a report in a division as tumultuous as heavyweight. To assert the title functioning backward by way of the depths of Brazil, the Heavyweight King of Brazil chasing him and to defend it additional situations than any man prior to him.

To entire his tale arc of shedding the title to DC. Rallying back to end him and stamp a nail in the trilogy coffin. He marched on, hearth helmet in one hand, gloves in the other – arguing down the Heavyweight GOAT chat and just rumbling on. Firefighter, Husband, Father and UFC Heavyweight champion into a struggle that was not only a rematch but a matchup with the scariest male in the UFC.

As the tide of the MMA God’s does flip. It proved that Miocic did not have the solutions to flip away the freshly crowned King. What takes place to Stipe know we do not know. A create back again to the title and a rubber match is an solution, but whatsoever he decides to do. We ought to keep in mind of all fighters that conclude up on the getting rid of bracket that the harm that they take, the blood they shed, the tears they shed just to get to the situation of creating the wander to that illustrious 8 sided battlefield in that arena on that night time, deserves, mandates our regard.

Stipe is a winner, and we need to not forget him whilst we deservedly applaud and covet the new King. Era’s conclude and era’s begin. But Kings should by no means die in the memory of the congregation that worship them.