Daniel Cormier made certain it played out as most expected.
The American Kickboxing Academy captain retained the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title and looked dominant in doing so, as he submitted Derrick Lewis with a rear-naked choke in the second round of the UFC 230 headliner on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lewis, who had never before been submitted, checked out 2:14 into Round 2.
Cormier executed multiple takedowns, buried “The Black Beast” with suffocating top control and tore into him with short bursts of punishing ground-and-pound.