Miocic stopes Wedum in 1 to win UFC Heavyweight title Stipe Miocic won the UFC Heavyweight title with a 1st round knockout over Fabrico Wedum in front of over 45,000 in Brazil. Miocic landed a crushing right that knocked Werdum completely out and the fight was stopped at 2:47. Miocic is now 15-2. Werdum is 20-6-1. Jacare Souza stopped former world champion Vitor Belfort in the 1st round of their middleweight bout. Souza cut Belfort’s nose with a hard series of ground punches. Belfort continued to take hard blows until the bout was stopped at 4:38. Souza is now 23-4-1. Belfort is 25-12. Cris Cyborg made a sucessful UFC debut by taking out Leslie Smith in 81 seconds. Cyborg landed some vicious shots that knocked Smith to the ground. Cyborg landed some hard ground shots and the fight was stopped. Cyborg is now 16-1-1. Smith is 8-7-1. Mauricio Rua won a split decision over Corey Anderson in a light heavyweight bout. Rua won two cards 29-28. Anderson took a card 29-28. Rua is 24-10. Anderson is 8-2. Bryan Barberena won a unanimous decision over previously undefeated Warlley Alves in a welterweight bout. Barberena won by scores of 29-28 on all cards and is now 12-3. Alves is 10-1. Demian Maia choked out Matt Brown in the 3rd round of their welterweight bout. Maia is now23-6. Brown falls to 20-14. Thiago Santos stopped Nate Marquardt in the 1st round of their middleweight fight. Santos dominated the fight and dropped Marquardt with a big left and the fight was stopped at 3:39. Santos is 13-3. Marquardt is 34-16-2. In a wildly entertaining lightweight bout, Francisco Trinaldo won a unanimous decision over Yancy Medeiros. Both guys were almost knocked out on several occasions but Trinaldo took rounds one and three. Trinaldo is 20-4. Mediros is 12-4. John Lineker won a unanimous decision over Rob Font in a Bantamweight bout. Linker is now 27-7. Font is 13-2..