The Madison Square Garden in New York City experienced an adrenaline-filled night at UFC 309, which culminated in a clash of legends with Jon Jones‘s resounding technical knockout victory over Stipe Miocic to retain his heavyweight title with a spinning kick with President-elect Donald Trump as an honorary front-row witness.
The spinning kick that Jones (28-1-0) applied to Miocic (20-5-0) in the ribs bent him over and left him unable to defend himself, so that in the third round his victory was decreed by technical knockout, so that the champion was consolidated as the best fighter in the world against a rival who dominated the division and who is the one who has had more consecutive defenses with four, but who did not do well and even ended up with a wound under his right eye.
At 42 years of age, Miocic confessed in the final interview with Joe Rogan what was already feared in case of losing and failing in his attempt to conquer for the third time the title and will say goodbye to the octagon, after not fighting since March 2021, which will continue only as a firefighter in Ohio.
“I am done, I’m going to hang them up. I’m going to retire. Thank God,” declared Stipe Miocic after his last battle in UFC.
Stipe Miocic could suffer serious injuries at UFC 309
In addition to the pain of defeat, the powerful spinning kick that Jon Jones delivered to Stipe Miocic could have caused serious injuries, according to a report by Essentially Sports, who quoted sports medicine expert Dr. Brian Sutterer on his YouTube channel, where he analyzed the damage that the Croatian-born American could have suffered.
“We can see that the initial impact is going to be absorbed primarily by Miocic’s latissimus dorsi, which is his latissimus dorsi muscle. Unfortunately, it doesn’t absorb much of the blow and we see this significant amount of deterioration extend to the ribs and upper left thoracic region,” Dr Sutterer noted.
The specialist fears that with the force of the impact Miocic could suffer “some injury to the internal organs”, but this should be ruled out with a full physical examination, to be sure that his kidney and spleen are not lacerated, although he concluded that an injury will be found: “I would be very surprised if Miocic did not have a fractured rib”.