Daniel Cormier har fått utstå en hel del kritik efter invägningarna vid helgens UFC 210, då många anser att han tryckte ner handduken för att få ner vikten inför mötet mot Anthony Johnson. Enligt Cormier var han själv inte medveten om att han gjorde detta, och meddelar även att detta var den tuffaste bantningen i hans MMA-karriär.
Detta hade Daniel att säga via ”MMAFigting”:
My weight was good. Wednesday morning, I’d guess I was like 218, but I could just feel like I wasn’t losing as much as I would lose normally. Whereas, if I would go and work out for an hour and lose eight pounds, (instead) I was losing five-and-a-half pounds. So I was like, ‘alright, this is going to be a little bit of a tougher cut, so I know Thursday is going to be rough.’ This was the hardest one by far.
So it’s just a lot of time between fights. Just, I need to be a little more active, so that my weight doesn’t get as high, and also my body gets used to the weight cut again.
When I got off the scale the first time, I walked away, and they didn’t cover me. So obviously, a guy thinks that he’s losing everything that he’s worked for on the scale, and we just walk back off the scale and nobody even worried about protecting me. So I was like, you know what, I’m going to hold the towel a little bit myself to make sure that I’m covered.
Now, the reality is, I didn’t even realize I was doing that until I saw pictures, honestly. I’ve got to be completely honest with you, I didn’t even realize I was doing that. I was tired. I was very discouraged and upset because of after that had just happened, so I didn’t even realize that I was doing it.
Cormier lyckades rada upp sin fjärde seger sedan förlusten mot Jon Jones, då han ströp ut Anthony för andra gången i karriären. Vem Daniel kommer att få ta sig an härnäst, återstår att se.
