@@thehoodedvagabum7375 up there with jones. Think DC eye poked stipe in all 3 of their fights so when DC got eye poked in 3rd fight I didn't have any sympathy for him
Major props to Stipe's corner telling him what he needed to hear and him actually doing it. His corner told him to mix it up and the fight did a 180 for him. DC was giving him the beats before the adjustment
From dc corner in the full fight you can hear about 500 times they say: box dirty and than the 750 eye pokes and stipe loost the first three rounds and came back in the fourth after so many direct hits to the head from dc and than they say Jon Jones would eat stipe easy... Wtf??? How? Jones say that stipe is the HW goat and that means something.
What's crazy is that DC was basically unresponsive. Most of the liver shots went unanswered and he never tried to cover up. He didn't want to clinch, either...so odd. There were like 12-13 liver shots too.
@@unixfool He's trying to be likes jones, beat the opponent at their own game. people thought that stipe was superior than DC when it comes to boxing/strinking so he tried to beat stipe there.
This is Stipe's best win imo. This was a great fight. DC brought his A game and Stipe had to dig deep to pull this one out. My favorite UFC heavy weight rivalry
he haf to fight through the diversity of eye pokes, glove grabbing, and back of the head punches over and over. Everytime I watch a DC fight I remember hes such a dirty fighter. Then he has the audacity to cry about Jon and be a commentator. 😂
@@Under-Kaozyou know meaning/spelling of “diversity” but not have*?? Sorry no offense either. Plenty of shit I don’t know either bud it just threw me off a bit 😊
@@hazebaze107Because if you call someone “underrated”, you’ll get likes on youtube. Look at any video, it’s sad and pathetic lol. Calling Stipe underrated is absolutely crazy.
*Stipe is the heavyweight GOAT!* He beat: 2x DC, Francis, Werdum, Overeem, JDS, Arlovski, Hunt, Gonzaga and Nelson etc. P.s. DC kept jabbing his thumb into Stipe’s eyes with every jab. He had numerous eye surgeries and I’m so happy that Stipe won this trilogy!
I like Stipe but he needs to add movement to his game to beat Jones. Leg kicks, foot and head movement and knees inside. Jon's elbows will be a problem for Stipe.
@@almyers8074 Stipe has a very short leg reach. Stipe’s best weapon would be his endurance (but he has bulked up too, he knows he needs the extra size against Francis, Blaydes etc). Stipe should be offensive with his wrestling and boxing. Jones has been boxing a lot, and I expect his elbows and kicks to be a problem for Stipe. But, Stipe must get him tired. He must pressure jones just like Reyes did. Whenever Jones tries to kick Stipe has to land shots or shoot.
@@zippo_muk9254 It will be interesting to watch this matchup, to see if Jones can compete at the weight and to see if Stipe's adjustments are effective.
@@almyers8074 It depends on how Jones wrestles. If he wrestlers to hold or for a quick ground and pound finish then he’ll have more success. Aspinall, Blaydes, Gane, Ngannou, Volkov and now Pavlovich could be difficult matchups. If Romanov can work on his cardio then that’s another difficult matchup.
Sweet vengeance. I love how the brass gassed up DC so much with his accomplishments. But always slow rolled Stipe, just for him to get his belt back haha
@@purestformofpeace absolutely. I can't hate DC most of the time, sometimes I just don't like him at some ways especially when he adopted the Jon Jones' attitude after he took the belt from Miocic and how he talked his way coming to this fight. that maybe the only time I hated DC, other than that, I love him but this loss of him is satisfying.
He will go down in UFC history as Daniel Cormier the best EYE 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁POKER!!! in UFC history, Won all due to his magnificent EYE POKES and master at Cheating with a Towel, ( EYE POKER DC )
@@eetfuk3571 Can you tell me , is there a specific reason why you target me? ... Because it doesnt matter what I do nor what I say... I allways gets targeted.
Stipe got him back big time in the 3rd fight though. DC's eye was closed for a few rounds in that fight, which is an example what goes around comes around.
@@TroyDakusboth are dirty cheats in the cage who don't deserve to get spoken about as good fighters. Outside the cage dc is a solid guy, Jones is evil
This trilogy established Miocic as the greatest Heavyweight of all and yes that holds true to this day. Ngannou is still a few defenses away from claiming that honor, even by his own admittance, and we will never know Cain's true potential because of his inability to stay healthy.
I’m not sold on Caine. He’s team spoke him up but he never was healthy enough to fight enough elite level guys long. He fought an old, ring rusted, post illness Brock. Even that fight, I think a healthy active Brock beats him easy. Brock just list that first step. He lost to Dos and Bigfoot. I don’t see him beating Francis, dc, stipe, jones. I even think Tim Silva kos him.
Dude you're crazy one fedora resume blows stipes out of the water. Two Cain was the most complete heavyweight thus far. Three Stipes opponents were all out of their primes.
@@nonyobussiness3440 1 the first fight with JDS was a flash knock out, the other two fights he dominated JDS from start to finish and won every round 2 he dominated silva twice 3 he's probably the most complete heavyweight skill wise and probably the hardest to beat out of all of them and Werdums style and Velasquez health faceted into the performance 4 he's not unproven by any means
It's absolutely insane how well DC did still in this fight after knocking Stipe out in fight 1, despite his height and reach disadvantages, and his predominantly wrestling background. But I don't at all agree with DC's recent observation when comparing Stipe to Jones that: 'Had he not made the mistakes, he would have beaten Stipe'. I don't think that at all. It was never up to DC here, he didn't make any mistakes to me. Stipe simply adjusted phenomenally, shut his body down with 11 liver strikes and then beat the shit out of him as payback for fight 1. DC missed the point which is that Stipe took control, changed tact and secured himself the win by dismantling and destroying DC in the fourth. Again, it wasn't mistakes by DC which means it wasn't in his control. I simply think Stipe was better than DC at heavyweight but the fact that it was always as close as it was, is why DC is also a legend when compared to, in my opinion, the heavyweight GOAT.
DC never earned that knockout, and should've been DQ'd this fight by the second round too. He landed 22 eye pokes (to my count) across these three fights. 2 In the first, 2 in the third, the rest all in the second. Thing is, he landed those 2 in the first fight back to back, entered the clinch, and hit Stipe's blinded side. That's why it was such a soft blow causing a KO. Everyone was surprised by that. It's the punch you don't see coming that puts you away, always. Stipe took ten shots three times as hard this fight and ate them like nothing. He ate Francis' best shots in both fights, dominating one and taking 20+ before he got put away in the second with a 46lbs weight disadvantage. His chin is superb. That KO was disgusting. Funny enough, Francis is the only man to beat Stipe legit to this day. Struve eye poked Stipe right before the KO too and hit his blind side. DC eye poked Stipe right before the KO and then hit his blind side.
@@TheStraightestWhitest It's funny you finding me on another video after I've just replied to you on another comment. Yeah while I do very much respect DC for what he did here and I can't ignore the performances he put on, the shots he gave and took and the wars he endured, the eye pokes you've mentioned are absolutely disgraceful and should have been punished accordingly. I haven't watched the 2nd or 3rd fights properly in a long time and can never find a compilation of the pokes. I believe you when you say about those eye pokes because I've seen it (especially the thumb in the eye) and that is absolutely unacceptable and should have seen a DQ, regardless of what I respect about DC's achievements and performances. That's a man's sight, let alone his ability in the moment to perform at his best. We're not talking swelling around the eye with legal punches, we're talking poking into his eye and I despise how he advances with his fingers out straight. You don't know how much I loved when Stipe straight stabbed DC in the eye with his index finger. Also I like what you're observing about about the shots Stipe took. It's the same with Bisping, GSP and Firas had planned to catch his blind side (literally) and he got him with the left hook.
@@TheStraightestWhitest 22 eye pokes 😂😂😂 all I remember is 1 in the first fight (which looked intentional) and couple of unintentional pokes from both sides . But the one that DC did was blown out of proportion so much that everything after that was eyepoke. I still remember people going bananas when stipe reacted to a punch being eyepoke. On replay it was DC's thumb that snuck to Stipe's eye when DC threw his jab which is pretty common when a short guy fights tall guys. But people were still in denial and labelled DC a cheater out of hate or something else. And the hilarious thing is after 2 fights the narrative was set "DC is a notorious eye poker and that's it." of which stipe took advantage and blatantly poked DC blinding him for 2 RDs at their third meeting which people maintained silence and some celebrated. That eyepoke from stipe was so deliberately done but the bias is there so nobody talks about it and these are the same people who talked about rule and ethics of the game 😂 when stipe got poked.
@@neerajbholan5369 LOL...did you not see Stipe's face? You act as if he's faking it, but it looks like Stipe got face-mauled by a house cat. If Stipe intentionally eye poked DC in the 2nd fight, I don't blame him at ALL - once burned, twice learned. Herb Dean's got the same eyesight as Ray Charles.
This comeback reminds me of in a video game when you discover a new move so you just keep spamming it bc it’s so effective. I’m surprised dc was that easy to solve bc he was cracking stipe over and over. The speed of his hands over stipe was crazy.
2:30 I've never really noticed eye pokes in the UFC due to how fast they usually play out, but that's the most blatant eye poke I've ever seen in the fights I've watched. I get that he had a lot of emotions going into this fight, it's understandable, but c'mon DC.
brutal eyepoke by dc at 3:30 im surprised stipe didnt go blind after that one glad he came back and got the knockout those bodyshots really payed off in the 4th who wouldve thought that punching a fatso in the stomach repeatedly would get you the win
That adjustment of those heavy left hooks to the body was genius. DC is tough as he'll though.. not many fighters can use that walking in zombie style of fighting and be effective with it.
Always disliked DC and his hack impression of a WWE wrestler! The lead up to this fight and the 3rd with Stipe was more cringe than a Cejudo IG post. Even Stipe wife commented that Daniel was talking at the weigh ins like "some kind of WWE guy". DC is a fake nice guy and got the beat down he deserved.
DC's maurauder style is bordering on kamikaze, his corner was going mental at him for not defending himself at all with his hands, it was all tilts and head movement
DC deserves big credit for fighting opponents way bigger than himself. Not many fighters can do it, let alone win. Imagine if DC is as big as his opponents are, it might not even be a competition.
DC ripped Stipe's retina apart with his eye pokes, causing the current downward spiral he's got in his career due to surgery and thus inactivity induced weight loss which may well have cost him the win against Francis. He landed two pokes right before the KO in the first fight. Only reason Stipe even went down. I loved DC since Strikeforce and still consider him the LHW GOAT since roid Bones is disqualified from that title, but I despised him for the way he acted during this trilogy. He showed he was no better than Jon.
DC has 1 win in the trilogy which should be overturned due to back to back illegal eye pokes before the punch to the blind side, and won 3/10 rounds across the second and third fights which he both lost. How did he dominate more?
@@TheStraightestWhitest wym he won 3 of 4 rounds in the second and 2 out of 5 in third plus Ko in first so I see him winning 6 out of the ten rounds come on
@@frankanuzzi9740 He won 1 and 2 and lost the third of the second fight. He also only won a single round in the last fight, and that's if we're generous giving him the first just because he landed one good shot when Stipe landed a third more. He also got saved hard by the bell in the third fight, second round. Stop the historical revisionism.
I was taught that the head may move, but the body doesn't. Bend at the hip. If you can't knock them out. Go to the body. You can shake a headshot off. But , Once the body goes, the head will follow.
O corner mandou ele direcionar os golpes pra parte baixa do abdômen e veja sol A estratégia mudou o rumo da luta e dali em diante começou o legado do Stip como campeão
5:53 You can clearly hear Dominick Cruz said " Oh no!" when DC is stumbling, Contast to when DC knocked out Miocic where Cruz was joyfully saying "He got it done! He got it done!" I guess It's hard to Commentate a fight when your friend or someone your care about is the one fighting, that's why you can't blame this guys for being bias at times 😆
6:59 that beautiful post fight speech when he said "heagothat ovatatdop hegiousa rigthand" gave me goosebumps
Stipe even talks like a goat
When he said : "heagothat ovatatdop hegiousa rigthand"I felt that
Same, I was like “factsss”
😂
@@madextreme2682 this is just the original post rephrased . .
still the greatest midfight adjustment I've ever seen in MMA.
And still the most shameless eye pokes I´ve seen. Jesus lol
@@thehoodedvagabum7375 up there with jones.
Think DC eye poked stipe in all 3 of their fights so when DC got eye poked in 3rd fight I didn't have any sympathy for him
@@paul111287 poetic justice with the ref not giving him a break
Good thread with guys that know their mma
4th round when he was losing and no one in his corner told him about it
Major props to Stipe's corner telling him what he needed to hear and him actually doing it. His corner told him to mix it up and the fight did a 180 for him. DC was giving him the beats before the adjustment
From dc corner in the full fight you can hear about 500 times they say: box dirty and than the 750 eye pokes and stipe loost the first three rounds and came back in the fourth after so many direct hits to the head from dc and than they say Jon Jones would eat stipe easy... Wtf??? How? Jones say that stipe is the HW goat and that means something.
thats what the best fighter dp, adapt, i wish DC wasnt so stubborn and use a takedown tho. instead he ate 12 body shots.
@@darkovidakovic76 Loose instead of lose is one thing... But loost? Lost? Losed?
@@chriswelcome8102his name ends with 'ic' , english is obviously not his native langage
@@risottonero4501 Yes, I forgot the internet exists and you can literally check everything you are unsure of on it
Those body shots may be one of the greatest adjustments and gameplans ever
Those body shot adjustments Stipe made were money 💸
Herb saying a obviously intentional eyepoke was clean is peak herb Dean.
😂😂😂😂
yep, overated bum herb dean, "gold standard of reffing" herb dean
Yeah the guy is a Turd. It’s obvious why he did that. POS
It looked like a punch until we see the replay and half of his thumb when into Stipe’s eye.
Comedic looking in slow mo
Those liver shots by Stipe were brutal
What's crazy is that DC was basically unresponsive. Most of the liver shots went unanswered and he never tried to cover up. He didn't want to clinch, either...so odd. There were like 12-13 liver shots too.
@@unixfool He's trying to be likes jones, beat the opponent at their own game. people thought that stipe was superior than DC when it comes to boxing/strinking so he tried to beat stipe there.
@@langsz But DC didn't try to cover up? He didn't counter-punch, either. He didn't even try to beat Stipe.
@@unixfool Dc was gassed . Stipe was in better shape.
Some went into the rig cage also...ugh. brutal.
You can tell that Cormier learned a lot from his battles with Jon Jones... like how to poke eyes.
Eye pokes are the only reason Dc won their first fight
@@lanfordjohnson8884 someone finally said it
Let’s just see what Stipe does against someone who is actually in shape & is a real master at MMA.. not fighting 40 year old Sunday grill ready DC lol
@@FuturesDoubleCup he beat Francis, overeem, werdum and JDS..... this was before he beat DC. You got a short memory
@@Joshpower57yet got knocked out by Stefan struve..😂😂😂. A guy who Roy Nelson koed. Roy Nelson 💀💀
This is Stipe's best win imo. This was a great fight. DC brought his A game and Stipe had to dig deep to pull this one out. My favorite UFC heavy weight rivalry
and the first fight vs Ngannou was perfect
he haf to fight through the diversity of eye pokes, glove grabbing, and back of the head punches over and over. Everytime I watch a DC fight I remember hes such a dirty fighter. Then he has the audacity to cry about Jon and be a commentator. 😂
The way he shut ngannou down and smacked him up in the process was likley his best win
@@Under-Kaoz”he haf”
Really bro??
@@Under-Kaozyou know meaning/spelling of “diversity” but not have*?? Sorry no offense either. Plenty of shit I don’t know either bud it just threw me off a bit 😊
Greatest fight iq based comeback in UFC's heavyweight history.
And fans don't wanna see him fight again. It's so strange.
@@NewWorldCT because he's old and washed up
lol so was dc in this fight stipe was 40 here stipe was 36..
@@tonywingfield9701 stipe was 40 and 36 at the same time??
No…it’s not.
Amazing how he was able to eat so many heavy shots from dc and then came back to win it. Very underrated fight and extremely underrated fighter.
How tf can you call Stipe underrated when he's considered the heavyweight goat by a lot of people?
Lol don’t forget the eye poke from Cormier.
@@hazebaze107Because if you call someone “underrated”, you’ll get likes on youtube. Look at any video, it’s sad and pathetic lol. Calling Stipe underrated is absolutely crazy.
*Stipe is the heavyweight GOAT!* He beat: 2x DC, Francis, Werdum, Overeem, JDS, Arlovski, Hunt, Gonzaga and Nelson etc.
P.s. DC kept jabbing his thumb into Stipe’s eyes with every jab. He had numerous eye surgeries and I’m so happy that Stipe won this trilogy!
Facts dc started playing dirty asf in his later years. Feel like he was disrespecting mma thinking he could go out in to the octagon that out of shape
I like Stipe but he needs to add movement to his game to beat Jones. Leg kicks, foot and head movement and knees inside. Jon's elbows will be a problem for Stipe.
@@almyers8074 Stipe has a very short leg reach. Stipe’s best weapon would be his endurance (but he has bulked up too, he knows he needs the extra size against Francis, Blaydes etc). Stipe should be offensive with his wrestling and boxing. Jones has been boxing a lot, and I expect his elbows and kicks to be a problem for Stipe. But, Stipe must get him tired. He must pressure jones just like Reyes did. Whenever Jones tries to kick Stipe has to land shots or shoot.
@@zippo_muk9254 It will be interesting to watch this matchup, to see if Jones can compete at the weight and to see if Stipe's adjustments are effective.
@@almyers8074 It depends on how Jones wrestles. If he wrestlers to hold or for a quick ground and pound finish then he’ll have more success. Aspinall, Blaydes, Gane, Ngannou, Volkov and now Pavlovich could be difficult matchups. If Romanov can work on his cardio then that’s another difficult matchup.
This is in my top 3 favourite fights for sure. Was rooting for stipe, and those 15 or so body shots were a thing of beauty.
Sweet vengeance. I love how the brass gassed up DC so much with his accomplishments. But always slow rolled Stipe, just for him to get his belt back haha
Love both of them but this was satisfying
@@purestformofpeace absolutely. I can't hate DC most of the time, sometimes I just don't like him at some ways especially when he adopted the Jon Jones' attitude after he took the belt from Miocic and how he talked his way coming to this fight. that maybe the only time I hated DC, other than that, I love him but this loss of him is satisfying.
To be fair dc beat his ass all fight
@@tdwpx5 minus the 4th round where Miocic erased every failures of the past first 3 rounds.
@@eetfuk3571 I mean you're not wrong. Especially with heavyweights you don't always have to be the better fighter
Stipe soooooo underappreciated as a 2 time world champ.
That adjustment in the middle of round 3 to stipe finishing him in 4 was magnificent!!
Eh DC was 41
and Stripe was 37. Neither one of them are youngins
@@malevolence602041 and winning the fight and beat him in the first one after destroying stipes eyes for months after…
Top 5 most satisfying beat downs in history
Herb “that was a clean eye poke” dean
He will go down in UFC history as Daniel Cormier the best EYE 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁POKER!!! in UFC history, Won all due to his magnificent EYE POKES and master at Cheating with a Towel, ( EYE POKER DC )
This fight shows why we love this sport.
And the warriors that make it happen.
The greatest heavyweight fight I’ve ever seen in my opinion.
Urge you to watch Hunt vs Bigfoot 1.
@@RightfootWestHam Arlovski vs Browne
@@eetfuk3571 Dont tell me that, tell Cruz Ramos.
@@RightfootWestHam ah yeah right. Lol.
@@eetfuk3571 Can you tell me , is there a specific reason why you target me? ... Because it doesnt matter what I do nor what I say... I allways gets targeted.
In all 3 fights DC used eye pokes and never got penalized, literally won the belt by eye pokes.
Yes. Too much eyepokes
An he still complains that he is a better fighter than Stipe.... DC copes hard man
Stipe got him back big time in the 3rd fight though. DC's eye was closed for a few rounds in that fight, which is an example what goes around comes around.
when dc does it he's still a good guy.. when jon Jones does it he's a cheater lol
@@TroyDakusboth are dirty cheats in the cage who don't deserve to get spoken about as good fighters. Outside the cage dc is a solid guy, Jones is evil
This trilogy established Miocic as the greatest Heavyweight of all and yes that holds true to this day. Ngannou is still a few defenses away from claiming that honor, even by his own admittance, and we will never know Cain's true potential because of his inability to stay healthy.
I’m not sold on Caine. He’s team spoke him up but he never was healthy enough to fight enough elite level guys long. He fought an old, ring rusted, post illness Brock. Even that fight, I think a healthy active Brock beats him easy. Brock just list that first step. He lost to Dos and Bigfoot. I don’t see him beating Francis, dc, stipe, jones. I even think Tim Silva kos him.
Fedor is the goat hw bro lmao
@@nonyobussiness3440 cain lost to bigfoot? Lol
Dude you're crazy one fedora resume blows stipes out of the water. Two Cain was the most complete heavyweight thus far. Three Stipes opponents were all out of their primes.
@@nonyobussiness3440 1 the first fight with JDS was a flash knock out, the other two fights he dominated JDS from start to finish and won every round
2 he dominated silva twice
3 he's probably the most complete heavyweight skill wise and probably the hardest to beat out of all of them and Werdums style and Velasquez health faceted into the performance
4 he's not unproven by any means
Lmao man, Stipe is a legend. Him spamming the shots, whilst chubby ole DC stood there unable to do anything about it, was absolutely hilarious.
Stipe footwork and confidence of moving forward is top notch
It’s amazing how those body punches changed everything.
Well it's hurt really bad.
You can't poker face to it every time 😂.
It's absolutely insane how well DC did still in this fight after knocking Stipe out in fight 1, despite his height and reach disadvantages, and his predominantly wrestling background. But I don't at all agree with DC's recent observation when comparing Stipe to Jones that: 'Had he not made the mistakes, he would have beaten Stipe'. I don't think that at all. It was never up to DC here, he didn't make any mistakes to me. Stipe simply adjusted phenomenally, shut his body down with 11 liver strikes and then beat the shit out of him as payback for fight 1. DC missed the point which is that Stipe took control, changed tact and secured himself the win by dismantling and destroying DC in the fourth. Again, it wasn't mistakes by DC which means it wasn't in his control. I simply think Stipe was better than DC at heavyweight but the fact that it was always as close as it was, is why DC is also a legend when compared to, in my opinion, the heavyweight GOAT.
facts. dc has never given stipe the credit he deserves
DC never earned that knockout, and should've been DQ'd this fight by the second round too. He landed 22 eye pokes (to my count) across these three fights. 2 In the first, 2 in the third, the rest all in the second. Thing is, he landed those 2 in the first fight back to back, entered the clinch, and hit Stipe's blinded side. That's why it was such a soft blow causing a KO. Everyone was surprised by that. It's the punch you don't see coming that puts you away, always. Stipe took ten shots three times as hard this fight and ate them like nothing. He ate Francis' best shots in both fights, dominating one and taking 20+ before he got put away in the second with a 46lbs weight disadvantage. His chin is superb. That KO was disgusting.
Funny enough, Francis is the only man to beat Stipe legit to this day. Struve eye poked Stipe right before the KO too and hit his blind side. DC eye poked Stipe right before the KO and then hit his blind side.
@@TheStraightestWhitest It's funny you finding me on another video after I've just replied to you on another comment. Yeah while I do very much respect DC for what he did here and I can't ignore the performances he put on, the shots he gave and took and the wars he endured, the eye pokes you've mentioned are absolutely disgraceful and should have been punished accordingly. I haven't watched the 2nd or 3rd fights properly in a long time and can never find a compilation of the pokes. I believe you when you say about those eye pokes because I've seen it (especially the thumb in the eye) and that is absolutely unacceptable and should have seen a DQ, regardless of what I respect about DC's achievements and performances. That's a man's sight, let alone his ability in the moment to perform at his best. We're not talking swelling around the eye with legal punches, we're talking poking into his eye and I despise how he advances with his fingers out straight. You don't know how much I loved when Stipe straight stabbed DC in the eye with his index finger. Also I like what you're observing about about the shots Stipe took. It's the same with Bisping, GSP and Firas had planned to catch his blind side (literally) and he got him with the left hook.
@@TheStraightestWhitest 22 eye pokes 😂😂😂 all I remember is 1 in the first fight (which looked intentional) and couple of unintentional pokes from both sides . But the one that DC did was blown out of proportion so much that everything after that was eyepoke. I still remember people going bananas when stipe reacted to a punch being eyepoke. On replay it was DC's thumb that snuck to Stipe's eye when DC threw his jab which is pretty common when a short guy fights tall guys. But people were still in denial and labelled DC a cheater out of hate or something else.
And the hilarious thing is after 2 fights the narrative was set "DC is a notorious eye poker and that's it." of which stipe took advantage and blatantly poked DC blinding him for 2 RDs at their third meeting which people maintained silence and some celebrated. That eyepoke from stipe was so deliberately done but the bias is there so nobody talks about it and these are the same people who talked about rule and ethics of the game 😂 when stipe got poked.
@@neerajbholan5369 LOL...did you not see Stipe's face? You act as if he's faking it, but it looks like Stipe got face-mauled by a house cat. If Stipe intentionally eye poked DC in the 2nd fight, I don't blame him at ALL - once burned, twice learned. Herb Dean's got the same eyesight as Ray Charles.
DC’s rivalry with Stipe made me despise him. He’s such a dirty fighter.
all high level fighters are dirty lol
@@TeWaikopu66kg Lmao no
@@高宇中 Figgy big ass example
@@高宇中 Kamaru Usman
@@dr.wolfgang3256 He’s also dirty. Don’t like how he fakes fouls and grabs the cage.
Except dom none talked about DC eye pokes...Man look at stipes eyes
Yeah, its shameful. DC mustve learned eyepokes from his fights woth Jon Jones and then said “fuck it, it’s a fight so whatever happens happens”
@@KingCharles3000 Yeahh... but when eyepokes in Jones fight everyone talked about it... but DC eyepokes none talked during as well as after the fight.
Then he got the nerves to complain about the eyepoke stipe gave him in 3rd fight like he didn't eye poke stipe a collective 20 times.
Anik literally goes ''O, NO!'' When DC goes down. The bias was insane.
And plz don't let DC commentate Charles vs Islam's fight..the amount of biasness and disrespect would be insane.
Still good to see Herb Dean being one of the top 3 worst refs, at least something is constant in my life!
This comeback reminds me of in a video game when you discover a new move so you just keep spamming it bc it’s so effective. I’m surprised dc was that easy to solve bc he was cracking stipe over and over. The speed of his hands over stipe was crazy.
Один из лучших боев в истории ММА!! Уважение легендам
This was what i heard when Stipe talk
Dc pokes stipe in the eye
Herb dean: that was clean!
Alright....
2:30 I've never really noticed eye pokes in the UFC due to how fast they usually play out, but that's the most blatant eye poke I've ever seen in the fights I've watched. I get that he had a lot of emotions going into this fight, it's understandable, but c'mon DC.
FUCK yeah loved seeing stipe kick cormiers ass
Stipe doesn't get enough credit for his cardio.
Stipe doesn't get enough credit. Period.
brutal eyepoke by dc at 3:30 im surprised stipe didnt go blind after that one glad he came back and got the knockout those bodyshots really payed off in the 4th who wouldve thought that punching a fatso in the stomach repeatedly would get you the win
I love hearing Dominic Cruz say "Ohh noo" when Stipe destroyed that liver
People say it’s bias but dom and dc are friends so it’s natural in my opinion.
stipes chin is so underrated. he ate alot of shots like nothing.
Yes & a lot of poke eyes
He got up like 15 seconds after eating the Ngannau KO… this not even human!!!
Iron Eye 1 Year Layoff 250lbs Full Camp Stipe is unbeatable.
DC had deceivable quick right straights.
i remember standing up clapping and shaking my head, i rooted for both fighters and this one had me yelling in my living room
Lol at 1:38 DC thought he was gonna get a cheap gifted W 😂
😂
It's amazing how much damage those guys can take.
Out of this world.
DC is a dirty fighter. Straight up. He eye poked Stipe in the 1st fight. Again in this 2nd fight.
And then sweet sweet karma came through in their trilogy where DC gets a swift dose of his own medicine
He actually eyepoked him in the third fight again.
What a fucking great fight. Endless respect for both men
What a fight, damn. I’m a boxing guy, but this fight makes me want to watch more UFC.
One of the best UFC fights
With every body shot you could almost see see the popeyes leaving DC’s body
The ref needed to let Stipe beat DC unconscious just to be sure no one says early stoppage.
2:31 Herb 'Color Coordinated' Dean with the ''this is fine, the black guy benefits'' lack of reaction to that blatantly obvious poke.
That refs a N.
Those body shoots are Nasty
6:59 words to live by.
What the hell he's talking.😂
That adjustment of those heavy left hooks to the body was genius. DC is tough as he'll though.. not many fighters can use that walking in zombie style of fighting and be effective with it.
DC the 'eye poke king'
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When he said "Moudft giuhdd lophgffb mjugfesa" after the fight, I teared up 😢 Inspiring words 😭 lol
These fights are blowing up with Stipe- Jones
Always disliked DC and his hack impression of a WWE wrestler!
The lead up to this fight and the 3rd with Stipe was more cringe than a Cejudo IG post.
Even Stipe wife commented that Daniel was talking at the weigh ins like "some kind of WWE guy".
DC is a fake nice guy and got the beat down he deserved.
Head ❌ body ✅
1:16 = WWE moment
After watching this, Stipe has absolutely zero chance against Jones.
I agree. Stipe doesn't seem to have a good defense against DC or Jones' biggest weapons- eye pokes.
Yeah. He won't stand a chance against Jon's eye pokes.
5:38 this is where DC was like "WHY IS THIS GUY STILL STANDING?"
One of the best heavyweight fights...it just was on the same card Romero vs Costa was on...otherwise it would have stolen the bonus
What a performance from both men
DC's maurauder style is bordering on kamikaze, his corner was going mental at him for not defending himself at all with his hands, it was all tilts and head movement
DC is the best warrior I've ever seen. Always comes in undersized and older, still takes belts. Legendary career.
Always pleasure to see DC beaten.
DC deserves big credit for fighting opponents way bigger than himself. Not many fighters can do it, let alone win. Imagine if DC is as big as his opponents are, it might not even be a competition.
eye poked his way to the KO and almost to a decision in this one. almost blinded the guy. no respect for him
DC ripped Stipe's retina apart with his eye pokes, causing the current downward spiral he's got in his career due to surgery and thus inactivity induced weight loss which may well have cost him the win against Francis. He landed two pokes right before the KO in the first fight. Only reason Stipe even went down.
I loved DC since Strikeforce and still consider him the LHW GOAT since roid Bones is disqualified from that title, but I despised him for the way he acted during this trilogy. He showed he was no better than Jon.
That's why they call him Emilianegro
What a game plan that firefighter brings the heat baby !
The second greatest comeback of all time in a title fight.
Which is the first? Jiri?
Maybe the third now
@@TheStraightestWhitest Silva vs Sonnen 1 hands down
@@nn9537 Nah, the third one is leon vs usman 2 now.
@@cmpunk500 Oh yeah, I agree. Can't believe I forgot that one. Silva was literally behind every single round dominantly.
2 legends man, DC doesn’t get his credit
Dc was looking sooo good, stipe really saved it with those smart body shots , amazing fight , I feel like we don't see fights of this caliber anymore
it’s crazy cause DC was doing so good til he gassed
Until he was MADE to gas. By repeated liver shots.
Great video and quality thankyou alot
White men king
Racist loser I bet everyone dreads whenever you enter a room, especially women.
@@Arkus123 racist hypocrite, i bet everyone runs away when you enter the room, especially little children
As an immigrant, you know that you’ve reached the highest level of English listening skills if you can understand Stipe’s English
If you look at all 3 fights dc dominated more
Yeah especially in significant strikes to eyes, dc dominated that 😎
DC has 1 win in the trilogy which should be overturned due to back to back illegal eye pokes before the punch to the blind side, and won 3/10 rounds across the second and third fights which he both lost. How did he dominate more?
no. Last fight arguably was 50 45.
@@TheStraightestWhitest wym he won 3 of 4 rounds in the second and 2 out of 5 in third plus Ko in first so I see him winning 6 out of the ten rounds come on
@@frankanuzzi9740 He won 1 and 2 and lost the third of the second fight. He also only won a single round in the last fight, and that's if we're generous giving him the first just because he landed one good shot when Stipe landed a third more. He also got saved hard by the bell in the third fight, second round.
Stop the historical revisionism.
Thats was a Big fight back then great warrior both of them "OSS"
THE GREATEST UFC FIGHTER I HAVE EVER SEEN WOW❤❤❤❤
That belly hanging out there, can't really miss it. Great fight!
Super 👍 Thanks
5:49 The iconic Joe Rogan “ohhhhhoooooooo”
THE WWE NEEDS YOU DC
I was taught that the head may move, but the body doesn't. Bend at the hip. If you can't knock them out. Go to the body. You can shake a headshot off. But , Once the body goes, the head will follow.
O corner mandou ele direcionar os golpes pra parte baixa do abdômen e veja sol
A estratégia mudou o rumo da luta e dali em diante começou o legado do Stip como campeão
DC was 40, man. What a legend. Honestly, probably better than prime Stipe.
O GOAT. Mais brabo dos pesados!
Those were the most beautiful eye pokes in MMA from DC... And he got away with it
Good man Stepe fighs without eyepokes and wins. Respect
5:53 You can clearly hear Dominick Cruz said " Oh no!" when DC is stumbling, Contast to when DC knocked out Miocic where Cruz was joyfully saying "He got it done! He got it done!" I guess It's hard to Commentate a fight when your friend or someone your care about is the one fighting, that's why you can't blame this guys for being bias at times 😆
Legendary liver shots
Classic fight……one for the books👍🏿👍🏿
Whoever came up with that hook to the body was a genius. Genius!
DC has the best dirty boxing mma has ever seen
man what a turnaround
never in my life seen two people less interested in blocking punches
Cormier and Jones are the best eye pokers in mma ever
Daniel Cormier is the man. Jeez
2 great guys. what a win
I can't get the hatred that many people show off to DC if he was one of the greatest heavyweight.
Nice work team.
Cormier literally spent half this fight trying to poke his eyes
DC one of the most skillful fighters ever. Undersized with the heart of a lion