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Fabricio Werdum is picking Stipe Miocic to retain his heavyweight title against Daniel Cormier at UFC 226.

UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will move up in weight to challenge reigning heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic at UFC 226, and it’s got everyone talking.

Top-three heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum, who lost the title to Miocic in 2016, was originally lobbying for a rematch with Miocic but is now intrigued by the matchup with Cormier.

“I want to see this fight, too. Of course I want to go first, but for the business UFC, for fans this is much better. I understand this part, too,” Werdum said on a recent edition of The MMA Hour, per MMA Mania’s Adam Guillen Jr.