Daniel Cormier’s Risky Position

Daniel Cormier is now in a rather unique, enviable position: He’s simultaneously holding two UFC belts, a feat that only a single fighter, Conor McGregor, had pulled off before.

There is a chance that the champ-champ could end the year without a single title. After all, when ex-champ Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson meet on Dec. 29, it’s the 205-pound belt that Cormier holds that will be on the line. And before that, on Saturday, it’s up to Cormier to defend the heavyweight crown when he meets Derrick Lewis in the headlining bout of UFC 230.

“It’s very risky,” Cormier told reporters, including MMAjunkie, during a media day on Thursday. “This is a guy that can finish the fight in no time.”

But here’s the thing about a fighter’s mentality: Thoughts that may make other people scared actually get Cormier excited. In Lewis, he has yet another opportunity to do what he likes to do to men who stand across him inside the cage: break them.“And not only just on the night – I like to try to break them going forward,” Cormier said.

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