Daniel Cormier successfully retained his light heavyweight title with a win over Anthony Johnson at UFC 210, however the reigning and defending UFC champion nearly lost his belt before fight night ever rolled around.
At Friday’s early morning UFC 210 weigh-ins, Cormier tipped the scales at 1.2 pounds over the light heavyweight limit — enough to cause him to be stripped of the title — before returning just minutes later and hitting the 205-pound mark on the nose in a controversial scene in Buffalo, New York. In reflecting back on the experience, Cormier called the incident the toughest weight cut of his MMA career, and said that he knew things were going to be rough as early as Wednesday of fight week.