{"id":323849,"date":"2019-08-30T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323849"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:58:32","slug":"cain-velasquez-says-daniel-cormier-wants-stipe-miocic-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/cain-velasquez-says-daniel-cormier-wants-stipe-miocic-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain Velasquez believes Daniel Cormier wants Stipe Miocic trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cain Velasquez believes his close friend and teammate Daniel Cormier would like to fight at least one more time and have a trilogy fight against Stipe Miocic.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC heavyweight champion Velasquez recently spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/08\/cain-velasquez-believes-daniel-cormier-wants-stipe-miocic-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a> and said he believes DC wants to fight Miocic for a third time and attempt to re-claim the heavyweight belt he recently lost at UFC 241.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what, he really hasn\u2019t told me what he wants to do, and I didn\u2019t ask him,\u201d Velasquez said. \u201cIt was somewhat close to his fight, and my prayers are with his family. He just lost his dad, so he\u2019s in that whole state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe he wants to come back and fight Stipe. If he wants to do that, then I\u2019m 100 percent behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cormier recently turned 40 and has said he hasn&#8217;t made a decision yet on his fighting future. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-dana-white-consoles-daniel-cormier-backstage-after-ufc-241-loss\/\">In a video that recently surfaced<\/a>, Cormier was seen sobbing in the locker room backstage following his loss to Miocic at UFC 241, with his family surrounding him. He said in the video that he needs to speak to his family first before deciding what&#8217;s next for him.<\/p>\n<p>Just a week after losing his belt, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-issues-emotional-statement-after-losing-his-father-to-cancer\/\">DC then lost his father to cancer<\/a>. It has been a very difficult couple of weeks for the former champion, who is considered one of the most humble and respectable fighters in MMA history.<\/p>\n<p>If Cormier does decide to fight one more time and get the Miocic trilogy, Cain Velasquez believes his friend will win the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe he can go out there and beat Stipe, for sure,\u201d Velasquez said. \u201cI think he has all the tools, and if he really wants to do that, he can, but he doesn\u2019t have to prove anything to anybody, I don\u2019t think, but this is a decision that he has to make, and he will. Once he does, whether he wants to not do it anymore or get that one fight again, I\u2019m 100 percent behind him, and I\u2019m always supporting him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Daniel Cormier vs. Stipe Miocic 3?<\/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\/29\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cain Velasquez believes his close friend and teammate Daniel Cormier would like to fight at least one more time and have a trilogy fight against Stipe Miocic. The former UFC heavyweight champion Velasquez recently spoke to MMAjunkie.com and said he believes DC wants to fight Miocic for a third time and attempt to re-claim the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":301475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10141,10153,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cain Velasquez believes Daniel Cormier wants Stipe Miocic trilogy | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cain Velasquez believes his close friend and teammate Daniel Cormier would like to have a trilogy fight against Stipe Miocic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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