{"id":393813,"date":"2022-06-24T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393813"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:01:58","slug":"im-a-fighter-and-you-cannot-turn-that-off-daniel-cormier-admits-he-was-upset-at-phil-hawes-after-instigating-confrontation-at-ufc-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-a-fighter-and-you-cannot-turn-that-off-daniel-cormier-admits-he-was-upset-at-phil-hawes-after-instigating-confrontation-at-ufc-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019m a Fighter and You Cannot Turn That Off&#8217;- Daniel Cormier Admits He Was Upset at Phil Hawes After Instigating Confrontation at UFC Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier engaged in a contentious exchange with UFC middleweight Phil Hawes during the latter\u2019s post-fight interview after UFC Austin. Chiefly, it was Hawes who flung out insults at Cormier as he had just finished Cormier\u2019s AKA associate Deron Winn in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hawes, Daniel Cormier had bet on the wrong pony and Phil Hawes was keen that \u2018DC\u2019 accept that his teammate had been soundly defeated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Phil Hawes (-10000) vs Daniel Cormier (+1850)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lG9GxaaMVq\">pic.twitter.com\/lG9GxaaMVq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DraftKings Sportsbook (@DKSportsbook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKSportsbook\/status\/1538266044170571777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Cormier wasn\u2019t having any of it and quickly shut down Phil Hawes. He told Hawes to show some respect and also reminded Phil Hawes that he didn\u2019t hold a win over him [Cormier]. Hawes was quick to apologize to \u2018DC\u2019 in the cage and later followed up his apology at the post-fight presser, asking Cormier not to \u2018beat him up\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ben-askren-comments-on-a-dog-sht-idea-involving-conor-mcgregor-and-the-lightweight-title\/\">Ben Askren Comments on a \u2018Dog Sh*t\u2019 Idea Involving Conor McGregor and the Lightweight Title<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Daniel Cormier admits he lost the plot against Phil Hawes<\/h2>\n<p>Cormier recalled the incident and explained the exact thought process that Phil Hawes must have been going through after securing the flashiest win of his MMA career.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So Phil is saying I picked the wrong opponent. So I say to Phil, \u2018Do you think I pick fights? Do you think I make the fights?\u2019 I go, \u2018Phil, that\u2019s ridiculous. I don\u2019t make the fights, my friend. Be respectful. Be respectful.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-393814 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2036\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co.jpg 2036w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/co-1536x990.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2036px) 100vw, 2036px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPhil being the great guy that he is, he immediately gets that. Phil\u2019s not a bad guy, that\u2019s what people don\u2019t understand. I hold no ill will towards Phil Hawes for last weekend. He\u2019s high on adrenaline, he had the best performance of his entire career. He feels like King Kong, he feels great out there, he\u2019s hyped up, he\u2019s got this idea \u2014 probably something that has motivated him throughout the entire camp \u2014 to go and put me in my place because I picked him as Deron\u2019s opponent. The reality is I didn\u2019t do that.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/23\/23180376\/daniel-cormier-details-his-side-of-phil-hawes-situation-at-ufc-austin-admits-he-was-a-little-bit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-393815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/haw-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Famer also admitted that he was upset with Phil Hawes\u2019 statement and got fired up in the moment. However, Phil Hawes\u2019 attempt to de-escalate the situation was well received by Cormier.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow at this point, I\u2019m a little bit pissed off. Because I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, what is going on here?\u2019 I\u2019m from Louisiana and I\u2019m a fighter and you cannot turn that off. But Phil, to his defense, immediately recognizes that he may be in the wrong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier engaged in a contentious exchange with UFC middleweight Phil Hawes during the latter\u2019s post-fight interview after UFC Austin. Chiefly, it was Hawes who flung out insults at Cormier as he had just finished Cormier\u2019s AKA associate Deron Winn in the contest. According to Hawes, Daniel Cormier had bet on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}