Daniel Cormier made history at UFC 187. | Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC/Zuffa/Getty
Chris Weidman stood his ground atop the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight mountain, even as the ever-dangerous Vitor Belfort advanced on his position.
Weidman weathered a fierce punching volley and ultimately disposed of “The Phenom” with first-round strikes from the mount, as he retained his middleweight championship in the UFC 187 co-main event on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Belfort succumbed to a bitter cocktail of elbows, punches and hammerfists 2:53 into round one, failing in his bid to become the third two-division champion in UFC history.