Daniel Cormier doesn’t like what’s occurring with fighters after their UFC careers are over.
This previous weekend, Cormier’s longtime pal and teammate Luke Rockhold made his boxing debut, taking up Darren Until at Misfits Boxing 22. It went horribly. Until beatdown Rockhold, dropping him a number of instances earlier than brutally knocking him out within the third spherical. It’s the second stoppage loss for Rockhold since leaving the UFC in 2022, and it was a miserable look ahead to Cormier.
“For me, what makes me unhappy is watching guys which have had these careers, go and combat these fights that actually imply nothing,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I suppose it’s for cash, however it sucks once you see a man that was a champion unexpectedly virtually say, ‘To hell with the legacy, I’m simply going to go receives a commission.’ …
“One thing has obtained to vary in that regard as a result of, bro, I hated it. He obtained knocked out so unhealthy. After which, you possibly can inform when it don’t matter a lot, as a result of proper afterward, they’re collectively in an image at a bar. You can simply inform that it don’t matter. It simply doesn’t matter to him that he obtained knocked out, and it sucks.”
Whereas that is actually not new to fight sports activities, in recent times, a number of organizations have emerged that signal distinguished ex-UFC fighters, together with Naked Knuckle Combating Championship and Misfits Boxing. The rise of the influencer boxing scene, and Jake Paul particularly, pulls in former UFC champions or legends, usually with unlucky outcomes. Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley had been each brutally stopped by Jake Paul, whereas Nate Diaz and Anderson Silva additionally misplaced to the previous Disney Channel star. And now Frankie Edgar, 43, will make the soar to BKFC to combat Jimmie Rivera, three years after retiring from MMA after three consecutive knockout losses.
Cormier went on to lament that different organizations are utilizing former champions to construct their merchandise on the expense of these champions, however acknowledged he isn’t certain who can or ought to have the authority to inform fighters when it’s time to hold up the gloves. In the end, the choice falls to the fighters, and Cormier hopes that sooner or later that fewer will select to lengthen their careers in different organizations.
“If you find yourself a champion, or an individual that wore the UFC title, there are such a lot of methods so that you can earn cash,” Cormier mentioned. “There are methods to do it with out stepping within a boxing ring, with out stepping within a bare-knuckle boxing combat. So loopy. Frankie Edgar is about to do it. Frankie Edgar is about to combat in bare-knuckle boxing. I like Frankie. I don’t know that that’s the best thought. So hopefully somebody near him goes, ‘Frankie, I don’t know if that is the combat or that is the transfer.’
“As a result of finally, we’re watching nice champions, from a very long time previous, and from an extended historical past of nice champions go on the market and combat in a method that’s no nice for them, and I don’t love the visuals. They are saying all nice champions exit on their again, however they don’t must exit like that. …
“Discover options, guys. You don’t should combat perpetually. We’ve our time, after which the time passes. They at all times say Father Time is undefeated. That’s by no means been proved extra true than with what we’re seeing recently.”
Luckily for Cormier, no less than one one respect, he’s getting his want. Yesterday, Rockhold mentioned he was carried out preventing following this most up-to-date loss. Hopefully, he sticks to that.
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I imply, I’d watch. Additionally, Paulo Costa goes to have a whole lot of enjoyable with this, I’d think about.
Gotta be legal guidelines towards this.
Cormier sort of found out the problem in actual time. We don’t need fighters to maintain going, however how do you inform them to cease? The cruel reality is that for a lot of, retirement must be crushed into them. It’s among the many worst components of this sport.
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