Daniel Cormier retired from professional MMA competition after a second loss to Stipe Miocic at UFC 252.
A retired DC thought about coming out of retirement to fight Jan Blachowicz, but that thought lasted about 15 minutes.
“I’ve got to be honest. When Jan Blachowicz was like ‘hey, you want to disrespect me, get off the couch and come fight me.’ And I think to myself maybe I’ll go fight Jan Blachowicz,” Cormier told MMA Fighting. “I’ll go fight him and get this done and then I can walk away. That lasted about 15 minutes and then I completely understood that I was completely done.”
DC isn’t the only fighter going after Blachowicz, as both Israel Adesanya and Glover Teixeira recently made their cases for fighting the 205 pound king.
Cormier says that outside of one hiccup, a transition into retired life has gone smoothly.
“The transition’s been fun and honestly it’s not that different,” Cormier said. “I feel like for the last few years, I’ve been kind of prepping for this life. Because I fought three times in 2018 but then I fought once in [2019] and then I fought once this year. So the reality was I wasn’t the most active guy anymore, right? So the vast majority of the year, I would go in the gym, spar and workout some but then I was doing mostly television things in the off time. Now, it’s just not as much in the gym sparring and doing all those things. The workouts are at home in the garage. You jump on the treadmill, maybe the sauna and you’re good. You don’t have to get punched in the head anymore. So I feel like I’ve almost been preparing myself for this life for a couple of years.”
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