{"id":245127,"date":"2025-10-27T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245127\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:40:07","slug":"daniel-cormier-addresses-leaked-tom-aspinall-clip-that-was-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245127\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier addresses leaked Tom Aspinall clip: \u2018That was private\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment \u2014 caught on camera during media day<\/a> \u2014 showed Cormier quietly telling the UFC Heavyweight champion that he has the chance to make a lot of money<\/a> and go on a generational run because the division essentially sucks. While Cormier seemed to be offering genuine advice, he also took a jab<\/a> at fellow Heavyweight Jailton Almeida, who was set to fight on the same card.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, him and I were talking and the [hot] mic was on me<\/a>. I was talking to Tom about the Heavyweight division. I was literally trying to tell him he could be on the verge of something tremendously special right now,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cIn that statement, I was saying Jailton\u2019s going to grapple you. It\u2019s not as dangerous a fight. I could have done a better job of saying that to Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I was a little upset that Tom and his team released that, if I\u2019m being honest,\u201d he added. \u201cI thought when you lean into someone and you\u2019re talking quietly, that\u2019s a private conversation that should stay between you and the athlete. I thought it was Embedded, and I know Embedded would never do something like that. Regardless of what you\u2019re saying \u2014 whether in jest or being honest \u2014 Jailton Almeida deserves respect, and I do respect him. I feel bad. He\u2019s been so nice to me since he got into the UFC, and I think Jailton Almeida\u2019s a great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that he does need to round out his game,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cBecause the grappling is elite, but there\u2019s no damage. Even Dana White went up there after the fight and was like \u2018I\u2019m so glad that Volkov won<\/a> because you don\u2019t just get to take somebody down and hold them down.\u2019 You sign up to go fight. You have to fight. You really just have to go out there and fight. I think Jailton\u2019s going to watch that last fight and be very upset about that performance and not getting the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Almeida, his title hopes are on hold for now as Aspinall and Gane are expected to rematch next year<\/a>, with Volkov emerging as the next top contender.<\/p>\n

As for Cormier, he might be a little more cautious about who he\u2019s whispering to next time \u2014 because there\u2019s no doubt that his leaked conversation with Aspinall looked bad on all fronts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment \u2014 caught on camera during media day \u2014 showed Cormier quietly telling the UFC Heavyweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[139414,64,63,786,40762,785,139415,85,138947,1396,6656],"class_list":{"0":"post-245127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-preview-and-live-results","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-321-fight-card","17":"tag-ufc-news","18":"tag-ufc-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245127","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=245127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}