In the pre-fight build up to his light heavyweight title defense at UFC 210 against Anthony Johnson, Daniel Cormier said the fight would look exactly like their first encounter, a third-round rear-naked choke for Cormier back in 2015. And when the dust settled Saturday night, Cormier’s prediction proved mostly true with the champion securing another rear-naked choke victory, this time in the second round.
But, as Cormier noted in the post-fight press conference, though the destinations were remarkably similar, the journeys there were very different.
“It was a different fight,” Cormier said.