Superfight won’t uproot grounded UFC heavyweight star Miocic

Heavyweight Stipe Miocic flexes on the scale during the UFC 195 weigh ins at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Friday, January 1, 2016.Stipe Miocic has been the UFC's heavyweight champion for more than two years, calmly dominating the most tumultuous division in mixed martial arts during a record three title defenses.

Yet deep in his core, the longest-reigning heavyweight champ in UFC history has embraced the fact he'll always feel like a firefighter from Cleveland whose life took an amazing detour.

"When I walk into the octagon and they lock the door, I'm like, 'Well, I can't leave now,'" Miocic said. "It's fight or flight, and you've got to fight. It's a little surreal, though. You look across…