UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is defending the gold against Volkan Oezdemir in the coꦿ-main event of U𓄧FC 220.
Despite his dominance at light heavywe🐻ight, a return to the heavyweight division could be in the future for Cormier.
“It would be the most amazing thing in the world,” Cormier told . “That would take some thinking, some talking and a real solid plan to try to get back to the type of weight that I would need to compete against those guys. Because, again, I’m not going in there to lose and say I gave it my best shot. If I go in there with Miocic or Ngannou, I’m going to win. That’s just who I am. So that would just be me and my team really coming up with a solid plan on how I’m going to get up to a healthy, strong, 235, 240 pounds to go and fight those dudes.”
Cormier has had lots of success at heavyweight in the past, including winning the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix before coming t🍨o the UFC.
Whether a return to heavyweight happens or nꦚot, one thing that DC still loves to do is fighting for the l♊ove of competition.
“I don’t have to do anything else,” Cormier said. “I’m just fighting now because I love this sport. I feel like my career speaks for itself. Independent of anything else. I know I’ve been closely tied with Jones and everything else. But I feel that I’ve done enough to where I feel good, man. I’m not chasing anything else. I’m just fighting because I love competition. So, yeah, I’m totally secure in the way my career has been and how it’s going.”
UFC 220 takes place on Saturday, January 20 from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts✱ with Stipe Miocic and Frꦺancis Ngannou headlining. Fightful is providing live coverage of the event, with a post-show podcast to follow.
