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Current UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champion, Daniel Cormier, has had a long and illustrious career. Throughout his time in UFC, he has met some of the top fighters in the promotion.
He is also, currently, one of the most well-liked and respected Mixed Martial Fighters in the world, with the fans loving his carefree attitude in the Octagon, and yet his innate capability of not letting them down, or having even one fight called out as a dud.
The consistency of his delivery in the Octagon has been marred with only two fights, both of which he lost. Those two fights mark the only two that he did not end up winning in the Octagon. One of those two fights was overturned, so his record remains at only one loss.
Both of those fights were against Jon Jones.
With Jones returning to the Octagon in the near future, having been cleared to take part in Mixed Martial Arts by the USADA from the 28th of October of this year, there is a chance for Cormier to seek revenge, and set the record straight.
Whether he will do that or not remains to be seen, but either way, it would have been another good fight.
In this article, we will be taking a look at those 3 fights of Daniel Cormier, where he stuck out the most and performed at his best.
#1 Dan Henderson
Dan Henderson is one of the best fighters to have ever entered the Octagon and a Mixed Martial Arts Legend.
In UFC 173, in what would be the tail-end of his legendary career, Daniel Cormier faced Dan Henderson in the Octagon. The fight was a spectacular one, but one that Henderson would not have enjoyed. He was dominated from start to finish, and throughout his time fighting Cormier, he tried his best but to no avail.
He was thrown around and taken down a few times, and in the third round, one of those takedowns would eventually result in the Rear Naked Choke, which saw Cormier winning the bout.
#2 Alexander Gustafsson
Alexander Gustafsson is far from the most talented fighter in the world, but what he lacks in skill he makes up for in heart.
And in the Octagon, surrounded by the cage, facing your opponent who is looking to knock you out, heart goes a long way.
When Alexander Gustafsson and Daniel Cormier ended up facing each other in what would be one of the bloodiest and longest fights in either of their careers, neither had been expected to perform as well as they did.
They went the full five rounds, and although both battlers showed exhaustion by the time the fifth round arrived, it was a perfect mesh of skill and ability that they displayed in the Octagon.
This remains according to many, Cormier's best fight till date.
#3 Stipe Miocic
When Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier met in the Octagon, he was going into the bout as the heavy underdog for the fight.
This was a reasonable assumption as well, given the fact that Miocic had both height and reach advantage on him.
Given such a situation, what did he do?
It is his action here, which makes his UFC Heavyweight Title win bout the best fight of his career, as within minutes of the start of the first round, he had slipped inside the reach of Miocic.
There he gave a huge blow pushing him off-balance, before finishing him off with a huge knockout.
The intelligence he displayed here, shows the importance of logical thinking as well as strength for any UFC Fighter.
