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UFC Heavyweight Champ Stipe Miocic Balances Life as Fighter and First Responder

The heavyweight champion of the world is making coffee for everyone.

The fire station in Valley View, Ohio, is a lot like other places: The kitchen is the central gathering place. Firefighters and visitors shuffle in one by one and seat themselves around the rectangular, church-social table that fills the center of the room. There's not much space between the table and the counters, so the background noise of the morning is the scrape of folding chairs along the linoleum floor as people scoot forward to let someone by, followed by the quick response of, "Nah, man, you're fine, you're fine.