Pound 4 Pound<\/a> podcast with Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, the former UFC champions debated whether Cormier was wronged, with Usman siding firmly with \u201cDC.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cYes, 100 percent,\u201d Usman said. \u201cWhen we saw [Cormier\u2019s] reasoning behind it, he said, \u2018Usually when a guy leans in like this, that typically means, hey, this stays between us, don\u2019t tell nobody else.\u2019 And he gave him a pep talk. He cheered him up. He let him know, \u2018Hey, go take care of business.\u2019 Of course, when he\u2019s saying things like that and there\u2019s a hot mic and he\u2019s also saying, \u2018The rest of the division are so easy you can run through this guy and that guy and that guy,\u2019 that\u2019s supposed to be with us, between us.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor your team to release that and for you to approve your team releasing that, that\u2019s where the issue is, because that\u2019s supposed to be confidential. That\u2019s right there the code that you can never drop. You can never drop that code. When a fighter talks to you personally or gives you something personal, that\u2019s just personal. It doesn\u2019t have to be broadcasted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cormier\u2019s opinion is typically broadcast on multiple outlets, with the former two-division champion appearing in an analyst role on ESPN, dropping weekly episodes of his own YouTube show, and regularly serving as a cageside commentator for UFC events. While it\u2019s his job to have takes that are sometimes controversial, this is one instance where Usman believes the fighter meant to keep his words under wraps and Aspinall should have respected that.<\/p>\n
On the other side, Cejudo believes it\u2019s simply the nature of the game that if you\u2019re in front of live microphones all the time, you\u2019re going to get caught saying something people don\u2019t like. Cejudo doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s Aspinall\u2019s responsibility to withhold any conversation from the public, regardless of how Cormier felt about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally have to disagree with you because there\u2019s a lot of things Daniel has also said about people that people probably don\u2019t like,\u201d Cejudo said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that he\u2019s said truthful that people don\u2019t like. Sometimes it\u2019s a good thing. Sometimes it\u2019s humbling for those like myself, like DC, for us to be able to be that straightforward and also get a little bit of a taste of our own medicine. Hopefully, this doesn\u2019t hurt his relationship with Tom, but at the end of the day, I think it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think DC should probably\u2014I don\u2019t think Tom owes anybody an apology. He\u2019s doing the same thing we\u2019re doing. I\u2019ve always got a mic on. That\u2019s the shit that goes viral. So I take it back, Tom, you good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall ended up having a brutal UFC 321 fight week and he might have more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-257750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}