As Daniel Cormier’s career ticks down to a self-mandated retirement next year at age 40, he finds himself in an interesting historical place.
There will be those who will never let him forget about his two losses to Jon Jones, as though two losses to the man who would arguably be the best fighter of all time (if he were able to get his act together outside the Octagon) somehow diminish a career as sterling as Cormier’s.
And then there are those who will look at the breadth of Cormier’s ledger and his time in the sport and recognize, correctly, that his accomplishments make him a strong contender for the greatest fighter in the history of the sport.