Stipe Miocic celebrates after Saturday's UFC 203 victory against Alistair Overeem. David Dermer
David Dermer
DESPITE EARNING A disclosed sum of $600,00 for his latest bout, Stipe Miocic has no intention of giving up his job as a firefighter and paramedic.
Miocic, the reigning UFC heavyweight champion, successfully defended his title in his native Cleveland on Saturday night when he scored a first-round knockout of Alistair Overeem at UFC 203.
The 34-year-old, whose parents hail from Croatia, caused an upset when he dethroned Fabricio Werdum in May at UFC 198. By defeating Overeem this past weekend, Miocic became the first fighter in nearly three years to successfully defend the heavyweight title.
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Emerging victorious from the main event of a UFC pay-per-view card in his hometown was clearly a big deal for Miocic, but he wasted no time in getting back to normality and the demands of his part-time job with the Valley View Fire Department in Ohio. Miocic uploaded a photo of himself back at work yesterday, just over 48 hours after his win.
“Not stopping who I am. Tuesday after defending my belt and I’m back at the fire station getting my Pediatric Advanced Life Support training renewed,” Miocic said.
“Why do I want to keep being a fireman? All these dudes congratulated me and then called me names for ‘tapping’. This is what keeps me level headed,” he added in jest, referring to Overeem’s frivolous claims that Miocic tapped to a guillotine choke earlier in their bout.
Now that he’s the heavyweight champion of the world, a status which has just earned him the biggest pay-day of his career, Miocic certainly doesn’t need a part-time job to supplement his income. But his role as a firefighting paramedic has never been financially motivated.
“Along with making it to the UFC, one of my proudest moments was becoming a firefighter,” he says. “Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.”
In an interview before his UFC 195 win against Andrei Arlovski in January, Miocic explained: “I pick my schedule a month in advance because I’m part-time. I have plenty of time to train. I work a lot of weekends, work a lot of nights, the chiefs are pretty lenient with me and I still get my hours in, so it all works out.”
These guys are seriously making me go outside and wave to people wearing my belt. It's pretty awesome. pic.twitter.com/X6ZB9kONbj
Just over 48 hours after defending his UFC title, Stipe Miocic was back at work as a paramedic
DESPITE EARNING A disclosed sum of $600,00 for his latest bout, Stipe Miocic has no intention of giving up his job as a firefighter and paramedic.
Miocic, the reigning UFC heavyweight champion, successfully defended his title in his native Cleveland on Saturday night when he scored a first-round knockout of Alistair Overeem at UFC 203.
The 34-year-old, whose parents hail from Croatia, caused an upset when he dethroned Fabricio Werdum in May at UFC 198. By defeating Overeem this past weekend, Miocic became the first fighter in nearly three years to successfully defend the heavyweight title.
Emerging victorious from the main event of a UFC pay-per-view card in his hometown was clearly a big deal for Miocic, but he wasted no time in getting back to normality and the demands of his part-time job with the Valley View Fire Department in Ohio. Miocic uploaded a photo of himself back at work yesterday, just over 48 hours after his win.
“Not stopping who I am. Tuesday after defending my belt and I’m back at the fire station getting my Pediatric Advanced Life Support training renewed,” Miocic said.
“Why do I want to keep being a fireman? All these dudes congratulated me and then called me names for ‘tapping’. This is what keeps me level headed,” he added in jest, referring to Overeem’s frivolous claims that Miocic tapped to a guillotine choke earlier in their bout.
Now that he’s the heavyweight champion of the world, a status which has just earned him the biggest pay-day of his career, Miocic certainly doesn’t need a part-time job to supplement his income. But his role as a firefighting paramedic has never been financially motivated.
“Along with making it to the UFC, one of my proudest moments was becoming a firefighter,” he says. “Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.”
In an interview before his UFC 195 win against Andrei Arlovski in January, Miocic explained: “I pick my schedule a month in advance because I’m part-time. I have plenty of time to train. I work a lot of weekends, work a lot of nights, the chiefs are pretty lenient with me and I still get my hours in, so it all works out.”
Trying to fit that 5km run in after work doesn’t seem quite so demanding all of a sudden.
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