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July 8, 2024 • 16 mins

Daniel Cormier GOES IN ON the recent comments made by Stipe Miocic regarding the heavyweight division and the standing of his fight between him and the champion Jon Jones. Cormier also gives his thoughts on the Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal boxing fight. Then DC explains why he agrees with Miocic's take on the division, and why he believes the fight with Jones HAS TO HAPPEN. And don't miss Cormier's take on the Alex Pereira vs. Jon Jones super fight and why it would be a fight Jones WANTS to take. #Volume #Herd

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Speaker 1 (01:49):
All right, guys, back on my channel as always, Guys,
I thank you for the support and last week Been
and I did an episode once again. You guys rated
it so well. We appreciate and love of everything that
you do every single time. And uh, I just want
to make sure that we're getting more content out every
single week. And right now I was struck by something

(02:12):
that made me think immediately we need to discuss it, guys,
We have to discuss it. So what's been happening in
the heavyweight division has been frustrating for some, mainly the
interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, who I will see
and talk to in a couple weeks in Manchester. But

(02:35):
it finally feels like, right now, we have some direction, right.
John Jones said that he's gonna fight in November. It's
been made clear for a long time that he's only
fighting Steve A. Mioach's Tom is going to fight Curtis
Blades in a couple weeks in Manchester, so we have
some direction. We also got John Jones saying that the

(02:57):
options out there are great, so retirement may have to
be pushed back a little bit. He said that after
Alects Pereira won, so I don't know if maybe he
was talking about going down to two five again or
if he was talking about Parrera possibly fighting him up

(03:18):
at heavyweight. Now, this to what I just did. I
just spoke about the division, two divisions, three champions and
never mentioned the guy that is fighting. Look, guys, make
no mistake about it. Aspera and Blake is gonna be
a great fight. But the marquee matchup in the heavily
division is John Jones to Steve Amyochic. So in that

(03:41):
whole deal, I never mentioned Miochic. For the most part,
Miochi has not been saying much about everything in regards
to the fights and his standing in the division. So
what's been left to happen is us guessing. We're guessing
what a forty two year old man will do in

(04:03):
regards to his fighting future. We're guessing how a man
that has not fought since being knocked out by Francis
and Danu is expected to compete against the best heavyweight
in the world and one of the greatest fighters of
all time in John Jones after an extended layoff, or
just left the question because step A doesn't talk, because

(04:27):
Steve A is living his life step as a fireman,
all those great aspects of Miochic have left us with
no answers, but not anymore. Steve A finally spoke. He
finally spoke, and I believe that his words honestly are

(04:48):
the best. They're the best because what he's saying makes
the absolute sense, makes absolute sense. He is not forcing
anyone to do anything. He is standing on his beliefs,

(05:09):
and it felt like in the statement, if what he
wanted was not granted, he's okay with walking away from
the fight game. So what is really happening is the
juice is still worth to squeeze, right. The UFC still

(05:31):
feels like there's enough left in that matchup that they
want to make it because after reading what stevee said,
he's not forcing this decision on anyone. He's just standing
by what he wants and what he believes he deserves. Okay,

(05:53):
so this is what meolch you said. First, he spoke
about Tom aspinall and the state of the division, where
he stands and what he thinks should happen, saying I
feel the same way as Tom does, but I'm not
taking anything away from him. The UFC can do whatever
they want. It is what it is. There's only one

(06:14):
guy I want to fight, It's John Jones. But at
the same time, the UFC can pick who they want.
People don't know this, but there was a couple of
other times where I was ready to go fight and
they gave them another guy. What am I supposed to do?

(06:35):
There was another time. There were a couple other times
where I was ready to fight and they gave them
another guy. What am I supposed to do? So Steve
essentially saying that there were times where he was ready
to go the UFC just didn't give him the fights.
Steve Benen goes on to say, I'm not holding up

(06:56):
the division like everyone believes. I don't care. Do what
you want and stop crying. Now, I'm not saying that
Tom's crying. I'm just saying like the fans and all that.
So what Seepe is saying is, hey, I want to
fight John Jones. I'm gonna fight John Jones. If I'm

(07:16):
not gonna fight John Jones, do what you do. I
don't care. I love that. I love that for two reasons. One,
he's letting everyone know he's gonna stand on his business.
This is what I want to do. This is what
I feel is old to me. So this is what
I am intending to get. I don't care how long
it's took. I believe that I should be fighting for

(07:39):
the heavyweight Championship of the World against John Jones. One two,
just go on, I don't care. I don't care. I've
got my money because Steveey's rich as hell. I've got
my family. Stepe's happily married with his children and living
a great life. And no, at I've got my job

(08:01):
as a fireman, something my passion is I love to do.
Steepe has got at all. So he's essentially saying, if
you guys, don't want me in this position. Okay, okay,
I'm good with it. I'll go by my business. But
the UFCC still feels there's enough juice to be taken

(08:23):
out of there, to be squeezed out. It's still worth it,
the juice is still worth to squeeze. Otherwise, they would
have moved on if there was nothing to that fight,
if there was no interest, if they didn't think that
people would watch or care to watch John Jones and
steep A Miocic, they would not be as persistent in

(08:45):
booking it. That's simple. I know this because I've worked
with the company. I have been involved in fights that
the company wants to make. I know the way that
it works. If they did not feel that there was
value in this fight, they would move on. They would
move on. They're not moving on because there is value

(09:06):
in this fight. I love miotis taking and I don't
care attitude. I've learned that the more you don't care,
the more people are drawn to you. I see it
all the time. But I believe with this man, he
really is in that place because he's done so much.

(09:27):
Love that, but I also love that he just said
something because now we don't have to just guess anymore.
He told us, I'm gonna fight Jones or it is
what it is said it. In the statement, Jones said
he wants to fight me, and I understand why. It's
the greatest weight of all time. He's the most credential

(09:49):
guy there is. He's also at a point in his
career where he has not fought in a really long time,
so it would seem to be the best fight for Jones.
Jones said that he wants to stick around now. Cool cool,
I believe now John Jones can truly redefine his greatness.

(10:17):
No one will ever questioned what he did in the past.
But if he can continue this on now at an
advanced age, and we see it right Lebron's playing in
season number twenty, he's forty. Tom Brady played to his
mid forties. Now guys can fight and compete longer. If
he can do that, he can redefine history. And the

(10:37):
one thing I know about John Jones, he hates when
people start to bring other people into the conversation of
who's the best or better than him. So all the
moment to Perreira is getting will maybe motivate him to
do this for longer than he had intentions of doing.

(10:57):
So yeah, love the whole thing. I can't wait to
get to Manchester, dude, Becauld. You imagine if Tom Aspinall
just washes out Curtis Blades, then the firestorm that would
start to gather for him to fight Jones or Curtis
Blades just demolished to tom Aspinall, it would be crazy.

(11:19):
Here's the difference though, for there to truly be an uprising,
it would have to be Aspinall destroying Blades only because
of this. You've seen Curtis Blades lose before, so people
would think, well, he beat tom Aspinall, but we've seen

(11:40):
him get beat by Francis and we've seen him lose
to other guys. He's gonna lose to Jones. But if
Aspinall goes through Blades and the way that he did
Sergey and he's only lost because of that injury, default,
people would lose their minds, almost insisting let him in
Jones fight guys. We saw it recently with the WW

(12:04):
where the Rock came back and he beloved and he
wanted to take Cody Rose's spot. If Tom Aspinall can
get through this match or this fight and he's clean
and he looks dominant, there may be such a fan
uprising that the UFC may have to be forced to

(12:24):
make Jones versus Aspernall. I don't know what that would
be for my man Steepeg, but it sounds like if
it does happen, he's okay with it. It's listen to
the statement I read earlier, dude, interesting times in the
heavyweight division. I love it. I'm here for it all.
That's why I'm so pumped up about going to Manchester,

(12:44):
because I know that the stakes will be so big
in that arena when they're heavyweight champion walks to the octagon,
because he has a truly massive opportunity to make a statement.
I'm serious. If he goes through blades in a dominant
fashion are early, the fan noise will become so loud.

(13:08):
I don't know that you can just ignore it. I
just don't. There are times where you just can't ignore
it because you know that the money's gonna be too big. Look, guys,
when Jones and I were gonna fight the first time, now,
I was a replacement fight with Gustafson, but then we

(13:28):
got into that fight at the MGM Grand and it
was the biggest sports story in the world for days
that even when we were both back healthy, Gustafson and I,
they chose me because it just mattered that much at
that point. If Aspernall can do what he did in November,

(13:54):
they may not have a choice but to make that fight.
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(15:25):
mixed martial arts, he seemed like he was getting out
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(15:49):
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(16:11):
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(16:34):
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