In a career stacked with accomplishment after accomplishment, UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier added another one to his résumé Wednesday night in Los Angeles: ESPY winner for MMA Fighter of the Year.
For the first time in the show's history, ESPN separated the award for boxing and MMA into their own individual awards.
The former two-division champion edged out fellow UFC luminaries Amanda Nunes, Henry Cejudo and Israel Adesanya on the way to claiming the inaugural edition of the award.
"Tonight I won the ESPY for the best mma fighter, this is insane. I never would have thought I would ever get nominated for something like this.