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An undated photo of former UFC champion Daniel Cormier. \u2014 Instagram\/dc_mma<\/p>\n
Former UFC champion Daniel Cormier has urged retired champions to protect their legacy, saying there are other ways to earn money other than fighting.<\/p>\n
Luke Rockhold debuted in boxing against Darren Till at Misfits Boxing 22 on August 30, which the former lost in the third round by knockout.<\/p>\n
Cormier, a former UFC champion, while talking on his YouTube channel, criticised fighters like Rockhold, urging them to stop fighting risky bouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, what makes me sad is watching guys that have had those careers, go and fight these fights that really mean nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess it\u2019s for money, but it sucks when you see a guy that was a champion all of a sudden almost say, \u2018To hell with the legacy, I\u2019m just going to go get paid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Cormier reflected on the knockout of the former American MMA fighter adding he got beaten so badly but yet he was not embarrassed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething has got to change in that regard because, bro, I hated it. He got knocked out so bad,\u201d Cormier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then, you can tell when it don\u2019t matter so much, because right afterward, they\u2019re together in a picture at a bar. You could just tell that it don\u2019t matter. It just doesn\u2019t matter to him that he got knocked out, and it sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel Cormier said there are other ways to earn money without stepping into the ring and also advised the former UFC champion Frankie Edgar to drop the idea of fighting in bare-knuckle boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you are a champion, or a person that wore the UFC title, there are so many ways for you to make money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are ways to do it without stepping inside of a boxing ring, without stepping inside of a bare-knuckle boxing fight. So crazy. Frankie Edgar is about to do it. Frankie Edgar is about to fight in bare-knuckle boxing. I like Frankie.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know that that\u2019s the greatest idea. So hopefully someone close to him goes, \u2018Frankie, I don\u2019t know if this is the fight or this is the move.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undated photo of former UFC champion Daniel Cormier. \u2014 Instagram\/dc_mma Former UFC champion Daniel Cormier has urged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,789,797,11079,85486,786,60362,11081,785,34771,85,29888,787],"class_list":["post-121018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cormier","tag-daniel-cormier","tag-darren-till","tag-edgar","tag-fighting","tag-frankie-edgar","tag-luke-rockhold","tag-mma","tag-rockhold","tag-sports","tag-till","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}