Daniel Cormier says he’ll fight one more time in UFC, but ‘it has to be Stipe Miocic – no one else matters’
- ‘The next one will be the last one,’ former heavyweight champion confirms, win or lose
- Cormier says UFC wants to make the trilogy fight, and he’s open to December 14 in Las Vegas
Daniel Cormier has said he will fight once more in the UFC before retiring, but only in a trilogy bout with heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic.
“DC” surrendered his title belt to the Croatian-American in their August rematch at UFC 241 via fourth-round TKO, having dominated the fight.
In emotional interviews after the fight, he expressed doubt that he would step back into the octagon again – but struck a defiant tone in an interview with Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday night.
“The next one will be the last one,” Cormier said. “It has to be Stipe, no one else matters. They wanna make that fight. They want me to fight stipe again.”
The former light heavyweight and heavyweight champion spoke to UFC president Dana White on the phone around two weeks after his loss.