Veteran UFC heavyweight Daniel Cormier's MMA career ended with defeat to Stipe Miocic in Saturday night time's eagerly-expected trilogy bout.
The duo fought for the third and very last time at the back of closed doors at UFC 252 in Las Vegas after splitting previous memorable encounters at UFC 241 remaining August and at UFC 226 in July 2018, with the heavyweight belt converting hands on each of those prior occasions.
However, Miocic retained the gold on Saturday with a unanimous choice victory after 5 gruelling rounds, with the scorecards analyzing 49-46, 49-46 and forty eight-forty seven in favour of the champion.
Cormier turned into later taken to hospital for examination after sustaining a poke to the left eye all through the 0.33 round that eventually swelled up, with 'DC' complaining of vision troubles after the fight.
Reiterating his selection to now step far from the octagon, the forty one-year-vintage - a -time UFC heavyweight champion and previous light-heavyweight champion - said: "I'm no longer interested by preventing for whatever however titles and I don't believe there is going to be a name in future.
"That will be it for me. I've had a longer term, it's been high-quality, I simply fought my remaining combat for a heavyweight championship and it became a pretty exact fight."
UFC 252 became also exquisite for the co-major occasion, wherein formerly unbeaten growing big name Sean O'Malley suffered his first defeat within the advertising.
The relatively-rated bantamweight left the octagon on a stretcher after acting to go through an early ankle injury and being floored inside the first round through Ecuador's Marlon Vera, with the referee stepping in to give up the combat after a succession of powerful elbows.
Elsewhere on the main card, heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik secured a beautiful knockout victory over Junior dos Santos, while Daniel Pineda stopped Herbert Burns within the 2d spherical of their catchweight bout.
Georgia's Merab Dvalishvili additionally amassed his fifth consecutive win after beating John Dodson thru unanimous choice in their 3-spherical bantamweight contest.
The duo fought for the third and very last time at the back of closed doors at UFC 252 in Las Vegas after splitting previous memorable encounters at UFC 241 remaining August and at UFC 226 in July 2018, with the heavyweight belt converting hands on each of those prior occasions.
However, Miocic retained the gold on Saturday with a unanimous choice victory after 5 gruelling rounds, with the scorecards analyzing 49-46, 49-46 and forty eight-forty seven in favour of the champion.
Cormier turned into later taken to hospital for examination after sustaining a poke to the left eye all through the 0.33 round that eventually swelled up, with 'DC' complaining of vision troubles after the fight.
Reiterating his selection to now step far from the octagon, the forty one-year-vintage - a -time UFC heavyweight champion and previous light-heavyweight champion - said: "I'm no longer interested by preventing for whatever however titles and I don't believe there is going to be a name in future.
"That will be it for me. I've had a longer term, it's been high-quality, I simply fought my remaining combat for a heavyweight championship and it became a pretty exact fight."
UFC 252 became also exquisite for the co-major occasion, wherein formerly unbeaten growing big name Sean O'Malley suffered his first defeat within the advertising.
The relatively-rated bantamweight left the octagon on a stretcher after acting to go through an early ankle injury and being floored inside the first round through Ecuador's Marlon Vera, with the referee stepping in to give up the combat after a succession of powerful elbows.
Elsewhere on the main card, heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik secured a beautiful knockout victory over Junior dos Santos, while Daniel Pineda stopped Herbert Burns within the 2d spherical of their catchweight bout.
Georgia's Merab Dvalishvili additionally amassed his fifth consecutive win after beating John Dodson thru unanimous choice in their 3-spherical bantamweight contest.
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