{"id":290222,"date":"2018-11-04T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=290222"},"modified":"2018-11-04T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T04:14:20","slug":"daniel-cormier-shares-the-backup-plan-if-brock-lesnar-is-unavailable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-shares-the-backup-plan-if-brock-lesnar-is-unavailable\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier shares the backup plan if Brock Lesnar is unavailable"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a successful UFC 230 heavyweight title defense opposite Derek Lewis now in the books, UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier is now looking to the future.<\/p>\n

At present, the expectation is that he will next defend his heavyweight title against former champion and current WWE star Brock Lesnar. With Lesnar’s future still uncertain, however, Cormier has a backup plan: Jon Jones.<\/p>\n

Of course, Jon Jones’ future isn’t exactly certain either. The former light heavyweight champion is currently slated to fight Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232 in December, and if he loses this fight, it will suck a lot of the value out of a potential trilogy fight with Cormier.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Cormier has a tertiary plan in place if neither Lesnar nor Jones is available: a rematch with Stipe Miocic, the man he knocked out to win the heavyweight title in July.<\/p>\n

Daniel Cormier outlined the options for his future at the UFC 230 post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Lesnar can\u2019t fight and Jones loses, I\u2019ll fight Stipe,\u201d Cormier said at UFC 230\u2019s post-fight press conference (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s not Lesnar at heavyweight, it\u2019ll be Stipe. He deserves the rematch, I never said he didn\u2019t. And I\u2019ve always said it\u2019ll be him if not Lesnar. I just didn\u2019t want to fight him on three weeks notice, you\u2019ve gotta understand that. I didn\u2019t. We wouldn\u2019t put our best product out there if it was him and I on three weeks. It\u2019s better to have a full camp if we do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Daniel Cormier fight next after his impressive submission defeat of Derrick Lewis at UFC 230? Join the debate in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 11\/4\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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