Same! This was the one fight he really used his reach effectively. Wish he could have kept it up, but happy retirement nonetheless and I hope he can heal up his health issues
Me too! What a fight, he really used his reach so good. Nonetheless, he received too punches in his head and that was terrified to his health. I believe that he mustn't come back.
@Krz Low i think it was getting his jaw broken by mark hunt. some losses like that you cant recover from the same person. Where as a KO like this one, you can learn from and get better from. A hard loss like that can lead to permanent fear, a weak chin, severe concussion, etc..
@@iMixMaSteR1 What if he didn't struggle with heart problems, what if he learned to utilize his reach to his full potential, there is certainly what-if involved. Not talking about his record, who gives a fuck
I feel like Struve doesnt utilize the amount of power and advantage he has over everyone else. Imagine him using his reach to the maximum he would be nearly unbeatable
you can see struve's opponents literally looking at him like worried he's gonna throw a head kick or something and then he hesitates and the other fighter is like well ok i guess i'll just hit him then- and down goes struve except for this fight obviously
@@Jared_Merks honestly it looks to me like his quads/hamstrings failed him, it clearly wasnt a slip as his foot didnt slip/move, he bent at the knee which is probs from a combo of leg kicks/gettin domed yeah
@B455PL4Y3R he clearly slips, he puts his keg out to stop himself falling and with the bend at the knee to push himself back up if anything shows his quads was still functioning. He was unfortunately the mat was wet/ bloody.
Miocic already exposes some of the same weaknesses that cost Struve later on as well. It's definitely partly due to his medical problems, but I see he's also just a bit slow and never really used his reach to the maximum potential. But he had heart, sick submissions and here he delivered an awesome performance against the greatest UFC heavyweight ever. I also followed a seminar of him in the Netherlands which was awesome. And his fight against Rothwell was a disgrace. Man did he get screwed over there that was frustrating to watch.
Imagine having to eat uppercuts from like a mile away from a skyscraper. Not the greatest heavyweight, but I wish MMA was enjoyed individual fightwise and not on a written record.
Why do you think that? He simply wasn't a top fighter, he couldn't utilise his reach advantage, had bad foot work and was consistently knocked.out because of jt.
@@TheLunnyBear he could've learned all of those things, these things aren't inherent. Hell he even started to use his reach advantage more later in his career
@@TheLunnyBear He was fighting with a bad heart valve and they put him on beta blockers. My mother was on beta blockers and going up the stairs took an effort now try MMA fighting on them.
@Ebitari by Francis Ngannou. That's a big detail you left out. Very few men can do to Stipe what Ngannou did and he'd still be a huge problem for 98% of the HW division
Very late stoppage. 5 punches too late. He was already wobbling after that straight right. Herb Dean was on the wrong side of the action. But generally Herb Dean is a good ref and wanted to give Stipe a chance I guess
I don't think this dude is actually 7ft. Probably over exaggerated his height because most heavyweights aren't that tall so people wouldn't tell. He's probably like 6'8 or 6'9
Stipe blocks a lot of shots with his face he payed the price for it here. Struve was too slow of a striker. I feel like it's pretty rare to be fast and really tall. Most of those gifted giants choose basketball for sport.
This is the only time we ever saw him fighting someone significantly taller than him though. I bet the current version of Stipe would absolutely dust prime Struve.
Struve could have been so much better. The reach he had but never used to his advantage like you see Jon Jones doing. Struve reminds me of that super tall russian dude i think he was. Forgot his name its been so long. Was so damn tall but he had Gumby arms and legs. Just tall guys are amongst the worst fighters in mma and i dont understand how.
Didn't know about this fight. Stipe should've attacked the body instead. He's having trouble hitting this giant in the head due to the massive reach difference.
Stipe had a significantly more impressive career than Stefan Struve - a guy who has never held a championship belt for a single organization that has a wikipedia page.
wtf?? e had the most defenses in the history of HW everyone loses, cain, junior, ngannou,dc, verdum all of them lost, how is this loss nit make him the goat?
Here after Stefan's retirement
Same! This was the one fight he really used his reach effectively. Wish he could have kept it up, but happy retirement nonetheless and I hope he can heal up his health issues
Me too! What a fight, he really used his reach so good. Nonetheless, he received too punches in his head and that was terrified to his health. I believe that he mustn't come back.
@@franzveramendi4267 It was a good decision, he has a wife and young child now too
Congratz?
Why did he retire
One of the very few to beat Stipe. Dude doesn’t get enough love from the fans imo
Probably because he cheated
@@jordan9415 how? I'm actually curious no hate
@@27corpse Struve eye poked him several times in this fight. Before he hurt stipe, he deliberately thumbed him in the eye
@@jordan9415 oh
@@jordan9415 nice excuse 😂🤣🤣🤣
After this match , both their careers went the opposite. Stipe went to the top and Struve went to the bottom.
@Krz Low that guy has a freakin chin
@Krz Low not really, heart problems were the cost of being 7 foot. Who knows how different of a fighter he would've been without the reach.
@@Cnut_the_grape his height had nothing to do with it he has a bicuspid aortic valve. A lot of people even short people have that.
@Krz Low i think it was getting his jaw broken by mark hunt. some losses like that you cant recover from the same person.
Where as a KO like this one, you can learn from and get better from. A hard loss like that can lead to permanent fear, a weak chin, severe concussion, etc..
@@jvogler_art4708 his height had everything to do with it
Crazy to think Struve was 24 here... damn. He is one of those ''what-if'' fighters for me
What if? He went 4-8 after this fight. There's no what if
@@iMixMaSteR1 What if he didn't struggle with heart problems, what if he learned to utilize his reach to his full potential, there is certainly what-if involved. Not talking about his record, who gives a fuck
@@iMixMaSteR1 what if you actually used your brain to think for yourself instead of following a bandwagon
@@deBrawnyo I dont believe I asked for your opinion but thanks for piping in
@@iMixMaSteR1 What and he needs your permission to “pipe in”? Drop the ego you melon
Man if Struve didnt have all those heart problems he could easily be a top 10 heavyweight for a long time
Cons of being 7 foot
@@kanthony9154 isn’t Izzy same height tho?
@@JoeyCentral no he isn't
@@JoeyCentral wtf 😂
@@JoeyCentral What goofy question is that?
I feel like Struve doesnt utilize the amount of power and advantage he has over everyone else. Imagine him using his reach to the maximum he would be nearly unbeatable
you can see struve's opponents literally looking at him like worried he's gonna throw a head kick or something and then he hesitates and the other fighter is like well ok i guess i'll just hit him then- and down goes struve
except for this fight obviously
He is not a wrestler and not pure striker.
He is mostly good at submission,thTs why he cant be like a.silva or jbj
@@jflatty5389 roy nelson sending stefan to the moon was the first ufc fight I ever watched lol
He had a really bad tendency to stay on the cage and keep his chin high, which is why he would get caught so often.
@@pukiong no. Struve is mainly a kickboxer actually
This fight was lowkey good as fuck
You don't need to use low key in everything you fkn zoomer
@@chickennuggetscoon6900 you are lowkey unnecessarily mad.
@@Cnut_the_grape I know right what the fuck is his problem. Some ppl in these comments are so fucking butthurt.
@@chickennuggetscoon6900 Chill the fuck out.
The greatest performance of Struve's life
at least in UFC he can do the spits well when he is interviewing fighters
Also him beating Big Nog was another notable win of his career and his performance vs Bigfoot Silva.
For a 7 footer to move like that is awfully impressive. I heard he was a good dude, too. Stipe is one of my all time favorites
He skinny tall dawg he moves fast
Best match of Stefan i think. Always exciting fights with him.
Stipe keeps fighting even though he is knocked out on his feet.. I love that guy.
Thank you sir for all ur sacrifices for the sport
Struve will be telling his grandkids about this fight
That was so good damn. Boy was throwing those hands with perfect accuracy and power
imagine being the first guy to beat the GOAT
nope he is the second to beat stipe
the first was joey beltran
@@JeriPatrickAPaler was beltran robbed? record says stipe won
@@JeriPatrickAPaler no he didn’t. He got smashed by stipe. only jds, Struve and Cormier have beat him
@@rhyanwalker94 true my bad I double checked
2:32 Stipe is unlucky af that he slipped
Nothing to do with bad luck, his balance was gone from getting punched in the head lol
@@Jared_Merks honestly it looks to me like his quads/hamstrings failed him, it clearly wasnt a slip as his foot didnt slip/move, he bent at the knee which is probs from a combo of leg kicks/gettin domed yeah
@B455PL4Y3R he clearly slips, he puts his keg out to stop himself falling and with the bend at the knee to push himself back up if anything shows his quads was still functioning. He was unfortunately the mat was wet/ bloody.
Miocic already exposes some of the same weaknesses that cost Struve later on as well. It's definitely partly due to his medical problems, but I see he's also just a bit slow and never really used his reach to the maximum potential. But he had heart, sick submissions and here he delivered an awesome performance against the greatest UFC heavyweight ever. I also followed a seminar of him in the Netherlands which was awesome. And his fight against Rothwell was a disgrace. Man did he get screwed over there that was frustrating to watch.
The greatest heavyweight
@@kwalterrasquinha413 come on man, you know that's Fedor no matter what bald Dana says.
Stipe just couldn’t figure out the timing within the exchanges… incredible fight
Struve really had all the tools to be a great. He just couldn't keep his damn back off the fence and tuck his chin.
That was such an unfortunate slip but a great capitalize to put stipe away
He slipped because he was tired, just wasn’t his night.
If Stephan takes a bad step he could fall out of the octagon
Battle of the big guys love both fighter's
Stipe fight with a temperature in that fight. 38, maybe higher, I don't remember exactly
And then it came all crushing down for the poor skyscraper
What happened to him man?
@@banik7414 mark hunt broke his jaw and he was basically done after that.
@@banik7414 he never really used his height to his advantage
He had fucking heart problems assholes...
Everyone gets hit in the jaw
But he still trains.
Stefan Struve is my favorite fighter despite he only was barely above average
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Imagine having to eat uppercuts from like a mile away from a skyscraper. Not the greatest heavyweight, but I wish MMA was enjoyed individual fightwise and not on a written record.
Jon jones is wached that fight 100000000 times....
If he didn't have that heart issue I think he would been one of the greatest.
Why do you think that? He simply wasn't a top fighter, he couldn't utilise his reach advantage, had bad foot work and was consistently knocked.out because of jt.
@@TheLunnyBear he could've learned all of those things, these things aren't inherent. Hell he even started to use his reach advantage more later in his career
@@TheLunnyBear He was fighting with a bad heart valve and they put him on beta blockers. My mother was on beta blockers and going up the stairs took an effort now try MMA fighting on them.
This match was Stefan's🙏 biggest win.
Well worth watching again. What a fucking war
Now Stipe is the GOAT and struve is... Just another heavyweight who was very tall..
Great stipe miocic. Thomas
This is the only significant fight I'd seen where Struve doesn't lose.
Where was this fight
I guess this makes Struve the HW GOAT 😄
he fought him before stipe was in his prime but as of now stipe would demolish struve he's the heavyweight GOAT
@Ebitari by Francis Ngannou. That's a big detail you left out. Very few men can do to Stipe what Ngannou did and he'd still be a huge problem for 98% of the HW division
@@michaelmyers4943 pretty sure this guy would give Francis a lot of problems considering his height advantage.
@@michaelmyers4943 lets not forget ufc 220 where stipe bitchslapped ngannou
@@JoeyCentral Mark Hunt is 5'10 and knocked Struve out. Height doesn't matter.
beautiful right cross
5”11 vs 6”0
He just KOd the goat hw
What a damn good fight totally didnt expect it.🙌🙌
He only caught him slippin
Nope. Beginning of chicken legs. Was wobbled and therefore slipped
Struve never learned to use his ridiculous reach and length. Baffling.
Jon Jones has the same reach somehow lol
Struve had t Tex arms for his frame
This fight is like a heavyweight vs lightweight
Very late stoppage. 5 punches too late. He was already wobbling after that straight right. Herb Dean was on the wrong side of the action. But generally Herb Dean is a good ref and wanted to give Stipe a chance I guess
This guy is a giant he made Stipe look small
Crazy! Неожиданно!
Honestly what happened to Stefan?? He is only 33 how did he go downhill so fast
Heart problems
Getting KOd regularly is not good for your health either
he got KO'd by like every future heavyweight star lol he's been knocked around a lot in his career
If the skyscraper could've learned how to work outside game like jon Jones he would have been unstoppable!
Can't believe Stipe lost to this dude
I don't think this dude is actually 7ft. Probably over exaggerated his height because most heavyweights aren't that tall so people wouldn't tell. He's probably like 6'8 or 6'9
He’s the tallest UFC fighter of all time. He probably is 7’0 as listed.
Holy shit! Happy retirement Stefan.
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Its like watching goro vs johnny cage
Nk tv Daniel cormier vs Frank Mir clip? 🙏🙏🙏🙏👈😆😆😆
Stipe blocks a lot of shots with his face he payed the price for it here. Struve was too slow of a striker. I feel like it's pretty rare to be fast and really tall. Most of those gifted giants choose basketball for sport.
Running in a straight line fast does not equal moving fast.
Mans got rocked I said mans got rocked
I want to see stefan struve vs jon jones because how would it look with two guys with longest reach advantages
Зачем он так близко подходит имея такую большую антропометрию ?
Late stoppage
2:00 just chasing him around the ring LOL
This almost didn’t even look like a professional bout
Damn, I wonder what would’ve happened had stipe not slipped
Another tko for miocic🙂
@@ultimatefraudcrymier2633 lmao no. You can believe whatever you want though
Same result, but a bit later on
@@ericwest881 i know that
He would get spanked some more
Herb Dean saved him then & saved him now.
Struve never got a rematch
Granted his career wasn’t the best
But you should beat the guy who beat you like his for JDS & Cormier
Can we have The sky scraper against the predator
This is probably my ohioan bias but what the hell even rocked stipe?
молодец, что можно еще сказать 😊👊🤕
Stefan remember Denis Stojnic
Damn stipe got quite the chin
This song bangs
so weird seeing stipe be dwarfed , stipe doesn't do well fighting taller guys
This is the only time we ever saw him fighting someone significantly taller than him though. I bet the current version of Stipe would absolutely dust prime Struve.
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@@H.K.5 Lmao sure
Struve could have been so much better. The reach he had but never used to his advantage like you see Jon Jones doing. Struve reminds me of that super tall russian dude i think he was. Forgot his name its been so long. Was so damn tall but he had Gumby arms and legs. Just tall guys are amongst the worst fighters in mma and i dont understand how.
No way he’s the heavyweight goat losing to struve.
Crazy that Stipe is 6’-5”
6ft 2
@@buzzi5644 6'3/6'3.5
that dude has the reach of a giraffe
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Prvi puta čuo za tog fightera,struve,a iza ovaj poraz Miočiča 💨✌️👀👁️
Didn't know about this fight. Stipe should've attacked the body instead. He's having trouble hitting this giant in the head due to the massive reach difference.
I've never seen struve fight like this, what the hell happened to this struve?
С такими длинными руками и ногами зачем близко подходит
Dutch power
At times he looks like a giant bald nate diaz
I think if he were just a little taller he would be a better fighter. Only like a foot taller.
& ppl want me to believe Miotic was the greatest HW of all time
Stipe had a significantly more impressive career than Stefan Struve - a guy who has never held a championship belt for a single organization that has a wikipedia page.
Ahahaha Stipe got his ass handed to him by Stefan "Why Do I Fight Like This" Struve
and you’ll get your ass handed to you by ben askren via spinning backfist
Made Stipe look really small
Stipe Miocic VS Area 51 Alien
Stipe should have wrestled more
Damn that's a slip to death by stipe
Crazy to see stipe knocked out like that
And ngannou probably wont ko him in the rematch
Yeah no idea why he's the under dog against Francis
This is why ill never agree with stipe being the goat hw.. Not even close rofl
wtf?? e had the most defenses in the history of HW
everyone loses, cain, junior, ngannou,dc, verdum
all of them lost, how is this loss nit make him the goat?
@@hakr4751 Khabib doesn't have the most defenses at Lightweight. Is he the lightweight goat?
I honestly would have put money on Stipe. I'm really surprised he go KO'd by Struve
Size difference is hilarious
Struve looked insane this fight wtf happend
If Struve is actually 250 then kd might actually be 240
Stefan Struve knees people just by walking past them
And y’all say stipe is the greatest of all time?
i am 6.4 but it show small in front of stefan
Stipe "the Iron Chin" Miooooooocic!
he looks like a heavyweight nick diaz