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<\/p>\nDaniel Cormier has shared his thoughts on missing out on one major payout during his time as an active member of the UFC roster.<\/p>\n
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Cormier had success in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. He captured championship gold in both weight classes. After knocking out Stipe Miocic in their first meeting, Cormier had a staredown with Lesnar that ended in a shove from \u201cThe Beast.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the incident inside the Octagon sparked interest<\/a> in Cormier vs. Lesnar, the fight never happened before \u201cDC\u201d walked away from pro MMA competition<\/a>. During an appearance on \u201cClub Shay Shay,\u201d<\/a> Cormier looked back on not getting a massive payday to share the Octagon with Lesnar (h\/t MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cThe WWE got him. The WWE took him back,\u201d Cormier of Lesnar on \u201cClub Shay Shay.\u201d \u201cThat was my golden goose, man. We had that moment in the ring. I pushed him, he pushed me. WWE paid him back. They they were paying Brock like $6 (million) to $7 million a year. Maybe $10 (million). You\u2019re telling me, \u2018Brock, you can go fight DC and lose, or you can come back (to WWE).\u2019 \u2026 It was one of the safest fights I could\u2019ve had. It\u2019s just the truth.<\/p>\n \u201cI like Brock, too. He\u2019s a great guy. But I watched what Cain (Velasquez) did to him. I watched how he would react to getting punched, and I was going to punch him. He would have to take me down to win the fight, and I can wrestle. If he shoots on me, I\u2019m going to make it so hard for him to get that takedown that by the time he gets it, he\u2019s exhausted. Now I\u2019m up to my feet, then you\u2019re done. That\u2019s what happened with Cain. He took Cain down. Cain got up, started kneeing him in his face. I saw Brock recently, he still has that scar under his eye from when Cain kneed him in the face. Yup: Still got that big scar under his eye.\u201d<\/p>\n Lesnar is done with MMA and he recently made his return to WWE. Cormier is enjoying life outside of fighting, as he currently serves as a color commentator for UFC events and collegiate wrestling shows on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier has shared his thoughts on missing out on one major payout during his time as an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-93036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93036","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=93036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}