{"id":280568,"date":"2018-07-12T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=280568"},"modified":"2018-07-12T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:31:35","slug":"yoel-romero-unleashes-sizzling-burn-daniel-cormier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/yoel-romero\/yoel-romero-unleashes-sizzling-burn-daniel-cormier\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoel Romero unleashes sizzling comeback after being turned down by Daniel Cormier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show<\/a>, Yoel Romero’s manager Malki Kawa confirmed that, after a pair of weight-cutting blunders, the long-time middleweight contender plans to move to light heavyweight<\/a>. The hope, Kawa said, was for Romero to meet Daniel Cormier in a light heavyweight title fight in his first fight back in the division.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we are talking to UFC about him moving up to light heavyweight,\u201d Kawa said. \u201cAnd I think what we\u2019re going to propose to them \u2014 well to be honest they offered us the Gustafsson fight and we accepted it. But Gustafsson needed to fight in August and Yoel wanted to fight later because he has to have surgery, he broke his orbital. So there are talks for him to fight at light heavyweight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was looking at [Romero’s] record and looking at some of the people he\u2019s beat, and I don\u2019t know what the fans will think about a Yoel Romero\u00a0and\u00a0Daniel Cormier\u00a0title fight since Daniel wants big fights, and I think that would be the biggest fight to make,\u201d Kawa continued.<\/p>\n

Romero then added gas to fire, calling Cormier out directly on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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@dc_mma<\/a> Congratulation to you for Saturday. I want to #seeyousoonboi<\/a> give the people what they want to see Me and #iluhju<\/a> 205 in New York<\/p>\n

— Peoples Champ (@YoelRomeroMMA) July 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n