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Dominick Cruz: Daniel Cormier set up a ‘trap’ to knock out Stipe Miocic at UFC 226

MMA Fighting | July 15, 2018

Related Topics: Dominick Cruz, Stipe Miocic, Daniel Cormier, Knockout, UFC 226, Alistair Overeem, Francis Ngannou, Professional wrestling championship, Mark Hunt

For Daniel Cormier to take the heavyweight championship from Stipe Miocic, he had to give up something first.

“DC” added the heavyweight title to his collection last Saturday with a first-round knockout of Miocic in the main event of UFC 226 in Las Vegas, an outcome that seemed unlikely given that Miocic had only once been finished with strikes in 20 bouts prior to fighting Cormier.

So how was Cormier able to pull off what knockout artists like Francis Ngannou, Alistair Overeem, and Mark Hunt could not?

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