{"id":398003,"date":"2022-07-16T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=398003"},"modified":"2022-07-16T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:26:45","slug":"hey-dana-you-think-i-could-fight-daniel-cormier-teases-a-return-to-ufc-action-and-names-his-opponent-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/hey-dana-you-think-i-could-fight-daniel-cormier-teases-a-return-to-ufc-action-and-names-his-opponent-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHey Dana, You Think I Could Fight\u201d- Daniel Cormier Teases a Return to UFC Action and Names His Opponent of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones ruled the lightweight division with an iron fist for the better part of a decade. Cormier won the belt against Anthony Johnson and went on to defend it multiple times before he moved up in weight and captured the heavyweight belt after knocking out Stipe Miocic. His accolades inside the octagon meant that during International Fight Week in 2022, Cormier was inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a>\u2019s Hall of Fame alongside his long-time teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-398004 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image01-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image01-6.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image01-6-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image01-6-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image01-6-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being on the sidelines for two years, it appears as thought \u2018DC\u2019 is itching to compete once again. In a recent interview he stated that he would like to compete once again. He said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI said this when I retired, I said I\u2019m only going to fight for championship belts. But it\u2019s like, I don\u2019t deserve a heavyweight championship fight. Stipe [Miocic] is not the champ. He beat me the last couple times. I don\u2019t deserve a shot at the heavyweight title. If I was ever going to fight again \u2014 and which, I don\u2019t want to \u2014 I would have to go all the way back to 205 pounds.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8WE\u2019RE LIVE! Tune in NOW for our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllAccess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllAccess<\/a> Q&amp;A with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc_mma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dc_mma<\/a> \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/31BWcNJ9f3\">https:\/\/t.co\/31BWcNJ9f3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Monster Energy (@MonsterEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterEnergy\/status\/1548004987879297025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018DC\u2019 continued, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy? Let me tell you why. Because I didn\u2019t lose. Remember, I vacated the title whenever I didn\u2019t want to go back down there, when [Jon] Jones was going to fight [Alexander] Gustafsson. So because I vacated the title, now maybe there is some potential in, \u2018Hey Dana [White], you think I could fight Jiri Prochazka for the title?\u2019 Especially with your name recognition and what you\u2019ve become outside of the fight game, maybe there\u2019s some value in that.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Daniel Cormier\u2019s return to the UFC a likely outcome?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Cormier did say that he would like to return to competition, it is highly unlikely that the UFC would offer a one-fight deal for the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-398006 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image03-1.png\" alt=\"Daniel Cormier \" width=\"812\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image03-1.png 812w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image03-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image03-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/image03-1-768x771.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, Daniel Cormier is 44-years old and has a plethora of injuries that he is dealing with which will make it harder for him to make a comeback. However, as we have seen multiple times before, the right amount of money can make the most absurd fights come to life. Therefore, it will be unwise to write off Cormier\u2019s return completely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/thats-how-injuries-start-ufc-featherweight-yair-rodriguez-drops-massive-revelation-just-days-before-his-ufc-return\/\">\u2018That\u2019s How Injuries Start\u2019- UFC Featherweight Yair Rodriguez Drops Massive Revelation Just Days Before His UFC Return<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/this-vagabond-has-become-a-shameless-batard-deiveson-figueiredos-former-manager-goes-on-an-all-time-epic-rant-about-flyweight-champion\/\">\u2018This Vagabond has Become a Shameless Ba*tard\u2019- Deiveson Figueiredo\u2019s Former Manager Goes on an All-Time Epic Rant About Flyweight Champion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones ruled the lightweight division with an iron fist for the better part of a decade. Cormier won the belt against Anthony Johnson and went on to defend it multiple times before he moved up in weight and captured the heavyweight belt after knocking out Stipe Miocic. His accolades inside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398003","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\/398003","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}