Miocic vs Santos

Who won Miocic vs Santos?

Stipe Miocic beat Junior dos Santos by knockout in the 1st round during the main event of UFC 211, on Saturday 13th May 2017 at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Heavyweight division, which meant the weight limit was 265 pounds (18.9 stone or 120.2 KG).

This contest was for the UFC Heavyweight championship.

Miocic vs Santos stats

Stipe Miocic stepped into the octagon with a record of 16 wins, 2 losses and 0 draws, 13 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Junior dos Santos made his way to the cage with a record of 18 wins, 4 losses and 0 draws, 13 of those wins coming by knock out and 1 by submission.

This was Stipe Miocic's 19th fight in the UFC, having made his debut for the promotion in 2011.

Stipe Miocic's UFC record stood at 14-5-0, while Junior dos Santos' came in at 15-8-0.

The stats suggested Miocic had a slight advantage in power over Santos, with a 81% knock out percentage over Santos' 72%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Santos had a slight advantage over Miocic, with a 6% submission rate over Miocic's 0%.

Stipe Miocic was the older man by 1 year, at 42 years old.

Miocic had a 3-inch reach advantage.

Miocic was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 4 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2010, 3 years and 7 months later than Santos, whose first professional fight was in 2006. He had fought 7 less professional rounds, 58 to Santos' 65.

Miocic vs Santos form

Miocic had beaten 2 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges once.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Jon Jones at UFC 309 on 16th November 2024 by knockout in the 3rd round in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Francis NGannou at UFC 260 on 27th March 2021 by knockout in the 2nd round in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at UFC APEX, Las Vegas.

Going into that contest, he had won against Daniel Cormier at UFC 252 on 15th August 2020 by unanimous decision in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at UFC APEX, Las Vegas.

Before that, he had beaten Daniel Cormier at UFC 241 on 17th August 2019 by knockout in the 4th round in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at Honda Center, Anaheim.

He had been defeated by Daniel Cormier at UFC 226 on 7th July 2018 by knockout in the 1st round in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Last Vegas.

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Miocic's last 5 fights had come over a period of 6 years, 11 months and 20 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 4 months and 24 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 15 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3 rounds on average.

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