LAS VEGAS — When Daniel Cormier left his seat in the stands at UFC 229, his first instinct was to fight alongside his teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov. Nurmagomedov had just jumped out of the Octagon and went after Conor McGregor’s cornerman Dillon Danis. All hell was breaking loose inside and outside the cage.
Quickly, though, Cormier got a hold of himself, he said Friday at a UFC 230 media day at the UFC Performance Institute. Going out there and escalating the situation was not the right move, he thought.