LAS VEGAS – There are a few rewards that come with a massive win like two-division champion Daniel Cormier ’s at UFC 226. One of them, or at least that’s what UFC president Dana White expects, is some recognition as “one of the best of all time.” “I think that what this does is, (it) finally gives him the respect that he deserves,” White said at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. To get to that conclusion, though, White first retraced Cormier’s (21-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) impressive road toward capturing the UFC’s heavyweight crown with the first-round knockout of Stipe Miocic (18-3 MMA, 12-3 UFC) in Saturday’s pay-per-view headliner. Then-unbeaten Cormier joined the UFC in 2013 as a heavyweight, but made the drop to the 205-pound weight class in a decision that had a lot to do with friend and teammate Cain Velasquez – who, for a while, reigned over the promotion’s heaviest division.
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Dana White: Daniel Cormier’s UFC 226 win ‘finally gives him the respect he deserves’ – MMA Junkie