BURBANK, Calif. — Over the years, Daniel Cormier has gone from lovable Strikeforce teddy bear to fighter who gets booed out of the building to respected elder statesman.
The UFC light heavyweight champion is feeling the love of the crowd these days, from the “Let’s go DC!” chants that reverberated around Boston’s TD Garden during his UFC 220 title defense against Volkan Oezdemir, to the ovation he received at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center during the recent UFC 25th anniversary press conference.
And at this stage of the game, Cormier has given up on trying to figure out why fan opinion can change as fast as it does.