Heavyweight champion. Light heavyweight champion. Decorated amateur wrestler.
All of the above are things that could be said about either Bellator’s Ryan Bader or the UFC’s Daniel Cormier.
While Cormier no longer holds a light heavyweight title after relinquishing it in December, he became a dual-division champion last July with a knockout win over then-heavyweight king Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 (Cormier will rematch Miocic in August at UFC 241). Bader is currently in possession of two Bellator titles, having ripped through an eight-man Grand Prix tournament to add the heavyweight championship to the 205-pound championship he’s held since June 2017.