MMA Junkie<\/a>, Cormier shed a bit of light on the timeframe for this fight. He believes that, as the UFC’s calendar for the first quarter of 2020 is filling up, there might not be time for his tie-breaker with Miocic until at least June.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no time for us to fight until maybe June,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cThe way the UFC quarterly schedule is looking, the UFC essentially, with them announcing Tony (Ferguson) and Khabib (Nurmagomedov) for April, there\u2019s really no time. We\u2019re going to be waiting a little bit.<\/p>\n
Cormier added that he’s starting to feel physically ready for his third fight with Miocic, who now owns the UFC heavyweight title, but that he’ll defer to his rival as the date for the fight is decided upon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tricky,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cI would like it to happen sooner than later, that\u2019s all I would like to say. I feel like the more time I get away from last year\u2019s back surgery, the better I feel, and I\u2019m starting to really feel like myself now. The further I get away from this surgery, the better I\u2019ll be. They told me when I did it, after about a year is when it would really start to feel everything was back in order and I\u2019m starting to feel that now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ready to go, but he\u2019s the champ. He\u2019s the champ, he makes the rules,” Cormier added. “So I\u2019m on standby and I\u2019m waiting to see when this guy says that we\u2019re going to fight. When he does, I\u2019ll be prepared. I\u2019ll be ready \u2013 even more prepared than the last time because I feel I can prepare better from the very start right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic first met in July of 2018. On that occasion, Cormier swiped the heavyweight title from Miocic with a first-round knockout. Just over a year later, in August of 2019, Miocic reclaimed the title and avenged his previous loss with a fourth-round TKO of Cormier.<\/p>\n
Cormier, like most fans, is pleased with the rivalry so far, and excited to write its final chapter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Stipe and I have a fantastic rivalry,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cI won the first fight in tremendous fashion, he won the second fight in tremendous fashion. I feel like we\u2019ve had the first two acts of a three-act drama and we have to do the trilogy fight and eventually we\u2019re going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you see a rematch between these two heavyweight legends going?<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 12\/9\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic are currently 1-1 across two previous fights, and the expectation is that they’ll meet in a tie-breaking trilogy fight in the near future. The date for this trilogy fight, however, is still a mystery. Speaking to MMA Junkie, Cormier shed a bit of light on the timeframe for this fight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":281153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10153,10253,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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