UFC 241 was a tough pill to swallow for Daniel Cormier.
After originally KO’ing Stipe Miocic to win the heavyweight title at UFC 226, ‘DC’ lost the belt in the championship rematch at Anaheim’s Honda Center, succumbing to a barrage of ground-and-pound in the fourth round of the UFC 241 main event.
Cormier was devastated by the loss, and recent video footage shows UFC president Dana White trying to console the former light heavyweight and heavyweight champ backstage.
“It was an incredible fight, an incredible fight, incredible,” White said to a deflated Cormier (h/t BJPenn.