In three weeks, it will be one full year since the UFC light heavyweight championship has been on the line.
The last time we saw UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier in the Octagon he was supposed to fight Jon Jones to unify the UFC light heavyweight and interim light heavyweight belts. Instead, Jones was pulled from the event just days before due to a failed USADA test and instead Cormier faced MMA hero and middleweight GOAT, Anderson Silva in a three-round, non-title affair. Since then, the prevailing logic has been that Cormier's next fight will be a title defense against Anthony Johnson in a rematch of their May 2015 fight.