{"id":473240,"date":"2026-02-13T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:40:09","slug":"daniel-cormier-becomes-the-latest-to-weigh-in-on-boxing-vs-mma-debate-after-shakur-stevensons-recent-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473240\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier becomes the latest to weigh in on Boxing vs. MMA debate after Shakur Stevenson&#8217;s recent remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier became the latest former or current UFC star to respond to boxing champion Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing superstar Shakur Stevenson ruffled some feathers with comments he made earlier this week about Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC. Stevenson, sitting alongside Terence Crawford while on influencer Adin Ross\u2019 stream, publicly called out Ilia Topuria and claimed boxing is superior to MMA.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted a strong response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/joaquin-buckley\/joaquin-buckley-lays-down-official-sparring-challenge-to-terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from UFC welterweight Joaquin Buckley<\/a>, who said he \u2018could kill\u2019 Stevenson or Crawford in a no-holds-barred fight. Buckley is one of the top knockout artists in modern MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Enter UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier, an elite wrestler who also showcased impressive hands during his legendary career.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cormier: Boxing \u2018just not fun\u2019 compared to UFC and MMA<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video uploaded to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DC_MMA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> channel, Cormier took Buckley\u2019s side against Stevenson\u2019s fiery comments about MMA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoaquin Buckley was right. It doesn\u2019t have to be boxing, because the reality is, there\u2019s no big fights like there were in the past,\u201d Cormier said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want it to be the boxing of the 70s, 80s, 90s. There aren\u2019t enough big events to make us go back to the days when Ali was fighting, or when Tyson was fighting. When you had the four kings and they were all fighting each other. During Lennox Lewis\u2019s time as being the heavyweight champion, it was different back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanelo fought Terence Crawford and it felt like a big event. But honestly, I don\u2019t get super excited for these boxing fights until you get young prospects trying to knock people out like these guys in the past,\u201d Cormier continued. \u201cIt\u2019s just not that fun, whereas when you get to the UFC, it\u2019s more fun, exciting, and it\u2019s just better. Hats off to Joaquin Buckley for calling that s*** out, because he should\u2019ve called it out. That\u2019s just the god-honest truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What upcoming boxing fights are you looking forward to? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier became the latest former or current UFC star to respond to boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,49,48,4226,641,192375,638,704,82,13036,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-473240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-daniel-cormier","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-joaquin-buckley","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-shakur-stevenson","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-terence-crawford","18":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473240","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=473240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}