UFC light-heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier, who wrestled for Oklahoma State in the late 1990s, will move up a weight class to take on UFC heavyweight titleholder Stipe Miocic, a Cleveland State mat veteran, in the main event at UFC 226 on July 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, UFC announced Friday.
This superfight will come at the conclusion of the 27th season of The Ultimate Fighter which will see the two opposing teams coached by Cormier and Stipe. The latest series of TUF debuts Wednesday, April 18 on FS1.
Both Cormier and Miocic successfully defended their respective titles one week ago in co-main event bouts at UFC 220 in Boston. Cormier won via a second-round TKO against Volkan Oesdemir, while Miocic defeated Francis Ngannou via unanimous decision in the other top-of-the-card fight. With those wins, Cormier is now 20-1, while Miocic is 18-2.
Cormier is no stranger to the heavyweight division. The former NCAA All-American wrestler for the Cowboys went 13-0 in that weight class before dropping down to the light heavyweight division. Cormier has announced that he intends to retire by his 40th birthday, which is March 20, 2019.
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