Daniel Cormier News

Tom Taylor - February 18, 2019

Having dispatched UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez in the headliner of the UFC’s Sunday night debut event on ESPN, Francis Ngannou now wants a shot at the UFC heavyweight title. As luck would have it, that title is currently owned by Daniel Cormier, a long-time friend and training partner of Velasquez. “I think what should be next for me is the title shot,” Ngannou said at the post-fight press conference. “I think Cain is the one that the victory against him, after that you deserve a title shot.”

Tom Taylor - February 18, 2019

Last night, in the main event of the UFC’s first-ever card on ESPN, former UFC heavyweight title challenger Francis Ngannou picked up arguably the biggest victory of his career, deflating the returning Cain Velasquez in less than 30 seconds. Post fight, the victorious Francis Ngannou called for a heavyweight title shot opposite reigning champion Daniel Cormier.

Tom Taylor - February 17, 2019

On Sunday night, the UFC will makes its debut on ESPN with a stacked card from Phoenix, Arizona. This card will be headlined by a crucial heavyweight battle between two-time former champion Cain Velasquez and former title challenger Francis Ngannou. Daniel Cormier will be watching this fight very closely — not just because he’s the reigning heavyweight champion, but because he’s a long time friend and training partner of Cain Velasquez.

Chris Taylor - February 16, 2019

Daniel Cormier has nothing but praise for Khabib Nurmagomedov, this after “The Eagle” paid the fines for his teammates involved in the UFC 229 brawl. Khabib Nurmagomedov improved his record to a perfect 27-0 by submitting Conor McGregor in the fourth round of their main event contest at UFC 229 this past October in Las Vegas.

Tom Taylor - February 14, 2019

In July of 2018, Daniel Cormier ended the record-breaking UFC heavyweight title reign of Stipe Miocic, stealing the champ’s belt with a strafing of first-round punches. Now more than six months later, Stipe Miocic still hasn’t returned to the cage, instead demanding an immediate rematch with the new champion.

Drake Riggs - February 11, 2019

Currently, Daniel Cormier is the reigning UFC heavyweight champion. But with an end in sight, he won’t hold that label forever. Training with Cormier for the majority of his professional MMA career has been the former two-time heavyweight king of the UFC, Cain Velasquez.

Tom Taylor - February 11, 2019

As long suspected, UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will not be retiring when he turns 40 in March, as he originally planned. The champ confirmed this news on The MMA Hour on Monday.

Tom Taylor - February 11, 2019

Daniel Cormier recently became the first fighter in UFC history to wear the light heavyweight and heavyweight titles concurrently, first capturing the vacant belt with a defeat of Anthony Johnson, then thumping Stipe Miocic to capture the heavyweight belt. Ryan Bader recently accomplished the same feat under the Bellator banner, first defeating Phil Davis to win the light heavyweight belt, and then defeating Fedor Emelianenko to capture the vacant heavyweight belt.

Tom Taylor - February 6, 2019

Yesterday afternoon, UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier took to Twitter to close the door on a potential rematch Stipe Miocic, the man he defeated to win the belt back at UFC 226 in July. “Do you guys wanna know why I’m not fighting [Stipe Miocic] again?,” Cormier began.

Cole Shelton - February 5, 2019

UFC heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier has stated he wants to retire by his 40th birthday, but it appears he will stick around longer. However, even with his extended career, he does not appear interested in fighting Stipe Miocic again. Cormier and Miocic fought at UFC 226 for the heavyweight title, in a fight that gave Cormier — then the light heavyweight champ — the chance to become a two-division champ. Ultimately, that is exactly what happened as Cormier knocked Miocic out in the first round.

Cole Shelton - February 4, 2019

Junior dos Santos is looking to reclaim the heavyweight belt, and on March 9 he can start that process. Dos Santos will be taking on Derrick Lewis at UFC Wichita. It’ll be Lewis’ first bout since he came up short in a title fight with reigning champ Daniel Cormier at UFC 230. Given that Lewis just contended for the title, dos Santos is looking at this fight as a number-one contender bout.

Tom Taylor - February 1, 2019

Speaking on ESPN’s Now or Never earlier this week, UFC President Dana White stated that the time for a rematch between UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and heavyweight champ Daniel Cormier is ‘now.’ “Now,” White said bluntly of a rematch between the two arch rivals. “Yeah. I think that right now, Cormier probably has three fights left in his career, you know what I mean? And one of those guys is definitely going to be Jon Jones.”

Tom Taylor - January 31, 2019

UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has long planned on retiring in March of 2019, when he turns 40 years old. Yet as that date rapidly approaches, there’s been question as to whether he might delay his retirement to accommodate big ticket fights with names like Jon Jones, Brock Lesnar and Stipe Miocic. That’s what UFC President Dana White is hoping, and from the sounds of it, he might just get his wish.

Drake Riggs - January 29, 2019

Since Jon Jones and his rival Daniel Cormier first fought in 2015, the two have had two very different stories unfold before them. For Jones, he ran into several troubles in and out of the Octagon when it pertained to legal issues as well as banned substance issues.

Tom Taylor - January 27, 2019

Last night, in the main event of Bellator 214, light heavyweight champ Ryan Bader became Bellator’s first two-division titleholder, knocking out Fedor Emelianenko in less than a minute to capture the Bellator heavyweight title. Heading into this fight, Ryan Bader says he drilled the very punch he used to topple Emelianenko many times. He knew there would be an opening when the Russian legend engaged, and practiced extensively to make sure he’d be ready for it.

Tom Taylor - January 25, 2019

The UFC had a very difficult time locking down a main event for the UFC 230 card in New York City in early November. Eventually, however, the promotion convinced UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier to make a short notice title defense against fearsome knockout artist Derrick Lewis on the card. Daniel Cormier has never hid the fact that the UFC made it well worth his while to step in and fight Lewis in the short-notice UFC 230 main event.

James Lynch - January 17, 2019

The last time we saw Brock Lesnar near a cage it was following Daniel Cormier’s historic heavyweight title victory at UFC 226 this past July. Since then, we haven’t heard much of anything regarding the former UFC champion. However this week, the University of Minnesota posted on their Twitter account some training footage that shows Lesnar is back on the mats.

James Lynch - January 14, 2019

UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has stated that he plans on walking away from the sport when he turns 40 years old on Mar. 20. Former champion Stipe Miocic doesn’t want to see “DC” retire as the heavyweight champion and called his shot on Twitter earlier this morning. .@dc_mma March 20 is coming up quick. Let’s settle this and get this fight on the books before you blow the candles out on that cake.