{"id":268190,"date":"2018-01-19T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268190"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:01:52","slug":"daniel-cormier-shares-photo-statement-hard-weight-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/daniel-cormier\/daniel-cormier-shares-photo-statement-hard-weight-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier Shares a Photo and Statement From His Hard Weight Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are only a day away from UFC 220 and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s=daniel+cormier\">Daniel Cormier<\/a> attempting to defend his title against hard-hitting Volkan Oezdemir. So many fights have been derailed by the early weigh-ins, luckily that isn&#8217;t the case for today. Cormier hit the scales successfully today, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it was a walk in the park. The UFC light heavyweight shared a message after weighing in, complete with a picture of him looking like a suffocating mummy wrapping in a pile of white towels.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s worth it but this is the worst shit ever honestly. Someone has to pay for this shit!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufc220?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufc220<\/a> can\u2019t wait! Thanks to my team for helping me get thru making weight. I love you guys. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMeleeWay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@themeleeway<\/a> you are the man , @lockhartandleith the best in the business <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mzluz3MtOH\">pic.twitter.com\/Mzluz3MtOH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc_mma\/status\/954397157750132736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s worth it but this is the worst sh-t ever honestly. Someone has to pay for this sh-t. UFC 220 can\u2019t wait. Thanks to my team for helping me get through making weight. I love you guys. Tyler &#8216;Melee&#8217; Minton, you are the man.\u00a0George Lockhart and Dan Leith [are] the best in the business.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Daniel Cormier via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>You can see that Daniel Cormier thanked Tyler Minton personally by name. If the name doesn&#8217;t ring a bell, he&#8217;s the same <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/khabib-nurmagomedovs-nutritionist-gives-unprecedented-insight-cut\/\">nutritionist that helped manage Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a>&#8216;s recent successful weight cut, silencing critics and playing a part in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/video-khabib-nurmagomedov-earns-redemption-ufc-219-weigh-ins\/\">Nurmagomedov&#8217;s UFC 219 redemption story<\/a>. Regardless of the expertise surrounding Team Lockhart&#8217;s methods, weight cutting is never easy as evident by Cormier&#8217;s comments. Cormier was the last to weigh-in today and made championship weight right on the dot. The co-main is on for tomorrow&#8217;s UFC 220 fight card.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC light heavyweight champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc_mma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dc_mma<\/a> hits the 205-pound limit. He also has no underwear &#x1f602;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC220?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC220<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4eTzpuVxy\">https:\/\/t.co\/R4eTzpuVxy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uupLlQcjkd\">pic.twitter.com\/uupLlQcjkd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/954381546852466688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 1\/19\/2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are only a day away from UFC 220 and Daniel Cormier attempting to defend his title against hard-hitting Volkan Oezdemir. So many fights have been derailed by the early weigh-ins, luckily that isn&#8217;t the case for today. 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