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‘This might be it for Stipe’: Derrick Lewis thinks Miocic is too ‘punch drunk’ to reclaim title

Stipe Miocic is making efforts to bulk up in weight following his devastating knockout loss to Francis Ngannou, but Derrick Lewis thinks the former two-time UFC heavyweight champion might be done.

Lewis claims Miocic is too ‘punch drunk’ to reclaim the title despite having only been KO’d twice in the last three years.

“I think this might be it for Stipe,” Lewis told The Schmo in an interview on Wednesday (h/t Curtis Calhoun of Low Kick MMA). “He’s punch drunk and has been hit too many times. I don’t think he’s going anywhere up in his career after that.