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Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier's Statements About Other Fighters

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Jake Paul November 5, 2025

“I don't care what Anthony Joshua did to Francis Ngannou. If Jake Paul gets in there with Francis, Francis will knock his head off this planet. You don't want those Francis problems... Even if Jake got power, I don't think he's got the power to deal with Francis... If Jake actually fights Francis, I'll do nothing but give him credit...You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. The stupid prize will be fighting Francis Ngannou. I don't care what money Jake Paul would make; he shouldn't be fighting Francis Ngannou... Stay away from Francis Ngannou - warned Jake Paul about a potential fight with Francis Ngannou.”

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Ciryl Gane October 29, 2025

“The rematch got a lot harder for Ciryl Gane, regardless of if Tom respected him this time. Because now, Tom Aspinall is going to know what Ciryl Gane can do and has felt him. He felt the speed, felt the athleticism-via Good Guy/Bad Guy YT Channel”

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Tom Aspinall October 28, 2025

“I was literally trying to tell him you could possibly be on the verge of something tremendously special right now... [In that statement], I was saying Jailton's going to grapple you. It's not as dangerous a fight. I could have done a better job of saying that to Tom. Now I was a little upset that Tom and them released that, if I'm being honest with you. I thought when you lean into someone and you're talking quietly, that's a private conversation that should stay between [us]. I thought it was Embedded, and I know that Embedded would never do something like that. -reacted with disappointment after discovering Tom Aspinall shared their private exchange.”

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Disappointment
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Jose Aldo October 21, 2025

“If (the UFC) go to São Paulo and he does a retirement ceremony again where he goes and puts his gloves down, I’m throwing something at my TV- via ESPN MMA”

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Humor
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Merab Dvalishvili October 17, 2025

“The way that they score mma takedowns is the problem... A takedown should not be when you get back up and the guy picks you up and just puts you back down. He never lost control. Merab didn't get 20 takedowns. Merab probably got five or six takedowns, and he got 14 mat returns.-via ESPN MMA”

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Alex Pereira October 10, 2025

“Alex is 38 years old and probably thinking at this point, 'How do I go and make another statement that I am the guy?' Hell, if he went to beat Jon Jones at heavyweight, Alex Pereira, who's already considered one of the greatest fighters of all time, in the most expedited timeline I have ever seen, would literally cement himself to almost stand above everyone because he would have beaten a former UFC light heavyweight champion and heavyweight champion, and a guy many consider as the greatest of all time-via YT”

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Alex Pereira October 10, 2025

“If I put Alex Pereira against Jon Jones, Pereira is the underdog... Against Tom Aspinall, Pereira is the underdog. Ciryl Gane? Pereira might be the underdog. But does it bring the same type of recognition or the same type of value to a victory as fighting Jon Jones? Pereira matches up also better against Tom Aspinall and against Ciryl Gane, and all these other guys than he does Jon Jones”

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Umar Nurmagomedov October 8, 2025

“I've got to tell you, I think Umar Nurmagomedov is probably the one guy that can challenge him. We saw their fight; it was 48-47 across the board. Everyone else cannot stay with him. It’s going to be very difficult for guys to figure out how to beat him because he’s just going to keep hitting them with takedowns. He’s a very hard challenge to prepare for. -reacted after Merab's victory against Cory Sandhagen”

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Dana White October 8, 2025

“It was such a hot ticket that 1, as the UFC HW and LHW champion, had to buy the tickets... The fight breaks out, and Khabib is completely losing his mind about getting his belt... Finally, Khabib calms down. Dana gives me money back for calming Khabib. He goes, "I don't know if I would have been able to get this situation under control without you.-Daniel Cormier about Khabib vs. Conor fight”

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Humor
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Magomed Ankalaev October 8, 2025

“Magomed Ankalaev did have a rib injury, this is not a lie, and this is not an excuse...I know this because prior to the fight, I saw video of him getting injections into his rib to try to help him get to the fight. He was able to hit pads, and do cardio, essentially, for a month and a half before the fight. With that being said, I don’t know if the result changes if he was healthy, because of the way Pereira fought him...I know some people who are really close to [Magomed] who told him not to fight, but he wanted to fight. He wanted to beat Pereira again because he understood how important it was for him to have two wins over Alex, and a stronger statement for why he is who he is. He wasn’t 100 percent, but I don’t know if he would’ve been at 120 percent if he’d beaten Pereira that night...-Via YT Channel”

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Magomed Ankalaev October 6, 2025

“What he did against Magomed Ankalaev is so impressive because of how good Ankalaev is. There are so many cliches like, 'The younger guy wins the rematch, as you get older, you're not as good.' Especially when you're fighting a guy who became the champion, who is supposed to be better in the rematch, especially if he's younger. Pereira doesn't pay any attention to that type of stuff. He's just a special type of talent, a special type of guy-reacted to Ankalaev's loss at UFC 320.- - Reacted to Ankalaev's loss at UFC 320.”

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Luke Rockhold September 24, 2025

“Luke [Rockhold] had a girl lined up. He wants nothing more than to leave the gym, so he convinces me... I want someone to tell me to go. And everybody's like, 'no, you got to lose more weight, and I look at Luke and he's like, 'he's fine, let him go: I'm like, 'yo, we should listen to Luke! And so I listen to that moron, and I left. That's what happened, bro. I hope whoever it was was worth it to Luke because then I had to have the most embarrassing moment of my career.”

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Jon Jones September 22, 2025

“You've got to let him fight”

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Mike Rockhold September 4, 2025

“We are watching great champions, from a long time past, and from a long history of great champions do out there in a way that's no great for them, and I don't love the visuals. They say all great champions go out on their back, but they don't need to do out like that... Alternatives. You don't have to fight forever. We have our time, and then the time passes. They always say Father Time is undefeated. That's never been proved more true than with what we're seeing lately.”

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