DC: With win over Brock I am one of the heavyweight G.O.A.T.s
Daniel Cormier: “I I beat the most dominant heavyweight champ of all time and then couple that with a fight over Brock, they may call me one of the great heavyweights of all time.”
Champ champ Daniel Cormier appeared recently on The Steve Austin Show and discussed his fight with former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar; the fight is expected to take place early in 2019. DC will retire thereafter. DC also intends to defend his light heavyweight belt at some point before the end of this year.
Stipe Miocic, who Cormier defeated at UFC 226 on July 7, vehemently wants a rematch. Lesnar has main evented four cards that did over 1,000,000 pay per view buys; only Conor McGregor has matched that record. Stipe Miocic has not, and that is why he is not getting a title shot.
Obviously he feels he deserves a rematch, said Cormier, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. Again, for what he’s done in the sport, you would think that he would get a rematch, but when there’s a fight like Lesnar on the horizon, you don’t turn your back. Honestly, Stipe has a lot of really loyal fans, but you can’t think for a second that if he would have won that fight, he wouldn’t have wanted or taken that Lesnar fight. It’s the biggest fight in the sport outside of fighting Conor McGregor and he fights at 155 pounds. So yeah, I’m gonna fight Brock.
Brock’s a big, bad, tough boy. A former UFC champ. Obviously, he’s the WWE champion. Just a massive guy with a lot of fighting ability. I’ve known Brock a long, long time and I’m excited to compete against him. And really, not to compete against him, I want to put it on him because when you beat a guy like Brock Lesnar – if I beat the most dominant heavyweight champ of all time and then couple that with a fight over Brock, they may call me one of the great heavyweights of all time.
First though there will be a light heavyweight title defense.
It’s well-documented how difficult it is for me every time I go to 205,” said DC. “This will be nothing new. The next time I have a light heavyweight fight, I’ll go down there, I’ll make the weight, and I’ll fight. . . I do want to keep this belt. I don’t want to have to give it up because the UFC doesn’t believe I can make the weight. I can make the weight.
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