Bader & Cormier nearly get in a fight at UFC 187 press conference
Daniel Cormier: “There’s somebody else that needs his ass kicked, too. Ryan Bader’s ass, I’m going to beat the s–t out of him next time.”
At the post-fight press conference for UFC 187, Daniel Cormier was asked about what fight could be next for him, and he was quick to point out that somebody who still needed to get his ass kicked was Ryan Bader:
“There’s somebody else that needs his ass kicked, too. Ryan Bader’s ass, I’m going to beat the s–t out of him next time,” Cormier said. “You keep talking, Bader! This guy’s so disrespectful. I’m trying to fight Anthony Johnson and Ryan Bader is writing me stupid messages on Twitter because he wants people to think that he deserves a title shot.”
Bader began yelling back at Cormier from the rear of the room and the situation escalated in a hurry when the taunts got louder and louder.
“Come on Ryan, you can come and fight me. You’ll just get your ass kicked like you were going to do in June,” Cormier said. “I asked them to fight you because I just wanted an easy paycheck! I wanted to fight you, I asked to fight you multiple time. They said, ‘DC, who do you want to fight?’ I said, ‘I want the easiest fight in the division. I want Ryan Bader.'”
Bader was originally scheduled to fight Daniel Cormier in the main event of the June 6th UFC in Louisiana before Cormier was offered a late replacement title fight with Anthony Johnson.