{"id":345249,"date":"2020-03-24T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=345249"},"modified":"2020-03-24T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:52:42","slug":"daniel-cormier-shares-his-plan-on-how-to-save-ufc-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-shares-his-plan-on-how-to-save-ufc-249\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier shares his plan on how to save UFC 249"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Daniel Cormier has come up with a plan on how he could assist in saving the highly anticipated UFC 249 event next month.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves to hear from their favorite people in times of hardship, and Cormier certainly qualifies as one of the most entertaining and well-liked personalities in the world of mixed martial arts today.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with Ariel Helwani for ESPN, Cormier laid out an amusing plan that would allow the highly anticipated UFC 249 pay-per-view next month to go ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Daniel Cormier has a plan to save <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC249?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC249<\/a> and it involves him gassing up the jet \u2708\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc_mma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dc_mma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@arielhelwani<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/52Zbnb8U5j\">pic.twitter.com\/52Zbnb8U5j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1242248151651713024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is why I am not the president of the UFC, because I would pick them all up,&#8221; Cormier said. &#8220;I\u2019d pick them all up! I would take my jet and I would say hey, where\u2019s Jessica Andrade at, Brazil? Who else is on this card that lives out of the country? Let\u2019s say there\u2019s a whole bunch of Brazilian fighters on the card, I\u2019d say you guys all meet at Jessica Andrade\u2019s house, I\u2019m coming over there. Rose Namajunas &#8211; oh, you\u2019re in Colorado, and there\u2019s a guy in Oklahoma? You guys meet in Kansas somewhere, I\u2019m stopping in Kansas to pick you guys up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re all flying to China, because hey, the Chinese have got it figured out! We\u2019re going to fight in China,&#8221; Cormier added. &#8220;Okay, he\u2019s in Orlando [Jacare Souza]. I\u2019m making a stop in Florida, okay, there are multiple people fighting out of Florida. Sijara Eubanks, she can drive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cormier went on to list a multitude of not so plausible ways that they could get everyone else to the required destination in order for this card to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Amusing as this may be, we all know that UFC president Dana White is sat somewhere thinking to himself &#8220;hey, maybe that could actually work&#8221;. They&#8217;re desperate to put this card on, and we&#8217;ll almost certainly see it in some form or another if it&#8217;s the last thing White does.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this plan from Daniel Cormier?<\/p>\n<p><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 3\/23\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Daniel Cormier has come up with a plan on how he could assist in saving the highly anticipated UFC 249 event next month. 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