{"id":323177,"date":"2019-08-21T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323177"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T15:32:57","slug":"dana-white-rips-mma-media-for-fking-insane-treatment-of-daniel-cormier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-rips-mma-media-for-fking-insane-treatment-of-daniel-cormier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White rips MMA media for &#8216;f**king insane&#8217; treatment of Daniel Cormier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until Saturday, Daniel Cormier was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC, according to the official UFC rankings. After losing to Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 241 on Saturday night, however, Cormier&#8217;s has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-rankings-update-daniel-cormier-plummets-dow-p4p-list-nate-diaz-enters-top-10\/\">plummeted six spots<\/a> in those same rankings \u2014 despite picking up a first-round knockout over Miocic a little over a year go.<\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White thinks that&#8217;s &#8220;f**king insane,&#8221; and is very unhappy with the members of the MMA media who vote on the official UFC rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC boss sounded off on the issue after Dana White&#8217;s Tuesday Night Contender Series.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dSHAdS\">\u201cI was looking at the rankings today when they came out, it\u2019s just fucking insane to me,\u201d White told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/08\/dana-white-daniel-cormier-stipe-miocic-trilogy-dont-think-he-should-retire?utm_source=smg&amp;utm_medium=wasabi&amp;utm_content=home-hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cThis guy on Saturday night was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. He loses and drops to No. 7, and he loses to the No. 1 heavyweight contender in the world, and the guy who has the most consecutive title defenses in UFC history, and Cormier drops to No. 7? It\u2019s crazy. He\u2019s much higher than that, and he\u2019s one of the best to ever do it. He\u2019s still one of the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Dana White addressed the possible retirement of Daniel Cormier.<\/p>\n<p>From the sounds of it, he&#8217;s hoping to see a tie-breaking trilogy fight between Cormier and Miocic \u2014 but he&#8217;s open to whatever the two decorated heavyweights want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll do anything (Cormier) wants to do, and obviously I\u2019ll do anything that Stipe wants to do,\u201d White explained. \u201cStipe\u2019s got to want the trilogy, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you still consider Daniel Cormier a top pound-for-pound fighter after his UFC 241 loss to Stipe Miocic? Should he be higher in the official UFC rankings? Join the debate in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/21\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Saturday, Daniel Cormier was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC, according to the official UFC rankings. 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