Cain Velasquez: No one can touch me when I’m at 100 percent

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Stipe Miocic will put his newly won UFC heavyweight title on the line on Saturday night in Cleveland against Alistair Overeem, a former Strikeforce and Dream champion.

And yet when Cain Velasquez sizes up the main event of UFC 203, while he respects Miocic and Overeem’s accomplishments, he still feels he’s the world’s best fighter at 265 pounds.

“People know that if I’m 100 percent going into the fight, that there’s no one out there that can touch me,” Velasquez said on Tuesday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I still feel that way going in to practice every day.”

And therein, of course, lies the rub. When the two-time former UFC heavyweight champion is on point, he just might be the greatest heavyweight fighter mixed martial arts has ever seen. He reminded fans what he can do when he picked apart Travis Browne and finished him inside one round at UFC 200.

But such shows of explosive brilliance over …

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