Daniel Cormier Biography

Daniel Cormier is considered one of the greatest fighters in the history of the UFC, and he will probably be in the hall of glory. In Russia, Cormier was once known under the nickname “Black Fedor”, and recently he was more often identified as the American “brother” of Khabib. Daniel ended his career last summer at the age of 41, and that evening his trilogy was closed with Stepa Miocich - one of the greatest confrontations in the history of the UFC.

Daniel Cormier was born on March 20 in the city of Laafayet, Louisiana. This place was named after the American-French revolutionary Gilbert Lafayet, and historically it happened that there are many people with French surnames in the city. If you follow the MMA for a long time, you could hear about Lafayta not only because of the feeder, but also thanks to the penultimate opponent of Khabib Nurmagomedov Dustin Porrier.

Moreover, Cormier and Porrier studied at the same school. Daniel grew up in a large family, he had two brothers and sister. When he was seven years old, his father was killed by a guest at a family holiday on the occasion of thanksgiving. He shot the father -in -law of Pope Cormier from his other marriage. So in the life of Daniel came a series of personal troubles.

When he became older, three of his friends died in a car accident. A little later, under the same circumstances, there was no cousin Daniel, and then his best friend crashed in the plane crash. It seems a bit too much for one fate, but a more severe test awaited ahead of Cormier.

From school, Nordsaid Hai Daniel was distinguished by a stubborn character. It was not easy for him to get along with peers, but he successfully competed with them. Especially in the fight. The statistics of Cormier was impressive: at school he won the state championship three times, losing only twice and both due to injuries. With such a track record of Daniel, they easily accepted the competity in Kanzas to College Kolby, where he continued to win.

During the year of study, Cormier won 61 out of 61 fights, after which a new stage began in his life - the University of Oklahom. There, Daniel reached the ALL American status is awarded to the best eight wrestlers according to the results of the season of the National Championship in weight up to 83.5 kg, where he had to compete with the best fighter of that generation in America Kal Sanderson.

Kormye finished playing at the level of universities with a record, and it was Sanderson who brought him six defeats. Cormier saw in the gold of the games the main goal of life and systematically moved to his main start almost the entire cycle, but a year before Athens - June 14 - he again had grief. On that day, his girlfriend Caroline went with friends and the three -month -old daughter of Kiden and Daniel to relax in nature.

When the company was seated, they decided to put the child with Caroline's friends because there was air conditioning in their car. On the way, the company got into a car accident in which Kiden died. The girl was fastened to the children's chair according to all the rules, but this did not help. She was in a children's chair, but the blow was too strong. I still cannot convey how painful it is.

In fact, it will never leave me. Despite the fact that I was the father of Kiden for only a few months, I loved her every second of them. She was the sweetest creature when she wrapped around my finger with a pen, ”said Cormier. Disi managed to recover and went to the Olympics in the year, but there he stopped a step away from the finals, losing to the future champion Hadzhimurad Gatsalov.

And then he lost the battle for the bronze. Given the circumstances, Daniel should think about changing activities, but he decided to go through another Olympic cycle. The family of Cormier was not easy to survive with the money that he earned, simultaneously engaged in preparing for the games, but the athlete was sure that it was worth it. He had reasons to make such plans, but fate again decided to check Cormier: a day before the start, he felt pain in his side and called the doctors.

Those diagnosed renal failure against the background of heavy weight loss and removed DISI from the competition. Cormier fighter ended his career as a six -time champion of national championship, a two -time winner of the Pan American Cup and the champion of the Panmeric Games - the financial situation and the interrupted path of the Olympic left the nurse of the minimum time in search of himself, and soon he decided on the future.

Mohammed Laval's student’s friend, known to the MMA fans, as King MO advised to go to mixed martial arts and invited Daniel to the hall, where he trained himself. He was sheltered by the second League of the USA StrikeForce, however, at first DISI was given fights at tournaments marked “Challenger”, in which the organization rolled the avenues. Cormier fought for these shows for a year and a half, parallel to defeating the XMMA small -town league in the tournaments.

In the period from September to January, Daniel spent seven battles and won in six ahead of schedule. After such a series, Cormier was given to the rivals of the steep veteran Jeff Monson, with whom three rounds had to be taken. Daniel again took the victory, and then great luck was finally waiting for him.After the battle, Silva cried and fell to Fedor's feet on the first week of the year, the president of Strikeforce Scott Cocker now he steers Bellator announced a grand tournament-the Grand Prix of the best heavyweights of the league of eight people.

And in the semifinals, Daniel Cormier, who was not even in the original Grand Prix, was surprised in the semifinals. According to the first impressions of Cormier in Strikeforce, the nickname "Black Fedor" was fixed after him. Daniel is about the same dimensions: his weight of kilograms in Emelianenko is usually about about, and height is the Russian -centimeter centimeters three centimeters higher.

And even yesterday, the Water fighter was distinguished by quick and well-set boxing combinations. The accurate uppercott Cormier knocked out Bigfath Silva, who was walking a confident favorite of that battle, and went to the finals for Josh Barnett. With him, Daniel spent 25 minutes in the cage, but also took the victory. A year later, Strikeforce was absorbed by the UFC, and Cormier, along with all the stars of the league number two, went to the number one league.

Further, a dangerous swarm Nelson was also carried out into one gate, and then it seemed that the title from Daniel was nearby. It is likely that he would have reached the waist and in the next few years defended his record number of times. He was 36 years old for Cormier, John Jones, who was already declared the biggest UFC talent, became the young champion of the division of the division up to 93 kilograms.

This enmity began in the fall of the year at one of the UFC tournaments. Cormier and Jones met in the hall, and John started the conversation with a clumsy joke in which he dumps Disie in a wrestling fight. Daniel did not like the joke, and in response he told the interlocutor about his regalia. The first experience of communicating Cormier and Jones went out so -so, but on it they built a story of hostility, which led to a very loud battle.

It was interesting for people to watch how Daniel and John fight at the Feis-Face Ceremony, pour mud on each other in an interview and admit that they first experience such a hatred of an opponent. In a plus, John kept his promise and, together with the first defeat, issued Daniel the first in his MMA-life missed Teikdown. The next heavy evening in his life, Cormier did not knock him out of the rut for a long time, and very soon he received an important bonus for his stubbornness and discipline.

In May, Jones was supposed to fight with Anthony Johnson, but shortly before he got into a dirty story: an accident in which a pregnant woman suffered due to his fault, and the fighter himself escaped from the scene, leaving a smoking tube in a broken car and a little cash. The UFC reacted quickly and strictly - John was deprived of the title and disqualified, and his belt was played between Johnson and Cormier.

Cormier spent three defense of the title before Jones figured out his problems and returned to the battles. Their revenge took place in July and ended for Daniel with another shock: in the middle of the duel, John took the opponent with the left high-kik, and after that he carried out hard finishing on the ground. A month after this, Cormier was depressed, and then the news came: Jones failed a doping test at the tournament where he fought with Disie.

The result of their revenge is canceled, Cormier is again the champion, Jones is banned again. So Daniel with a belt entered in the most successful year of his career. In January, Cormier came out against the young contender of Volkan Ozdemir and calmly dismantled him in the second round. In July, Daniel took a chance and returned to heavy weight for the sake of fighting with the champion Stepa Miocich.

Cormier was considered an outsider, but already in the first round he sent Miocich to the knockout and became the second in the history of the UFC a one -time champion in two divisions. At 39 years old! And unlike the previous double champion of Conor McGregor Daniel, he managed to protect in half -burn, which made his achievement a little more significant.

And in November, Cormier went on and defended the heavyweight title, strangling Derrick Lewis. In general, that year turned out to be a productive for the AKA hall: in it he took the belt in lightweight, and then protected it in the "battle of the century" Khabib Nurmagomedov. The most popular athlete of Russia in recent years has been trained and friends with Cormier from the year when he joined the aka.

In the year, Cormier focused on heavyweight and left the division belt up to 93 kg of Jones. Now, on the horizon of Daniel, there was only a confrontation with Miocich, and he managed to agree on August 17 with him. Cormier began the duel well, but in the second half he was not ready for the new tactics of Miocich, he completely let him go into the corps and lost with a technical knockout.

So in heavyweight UFC, the last at the moment of the championary trilogy has spun. A year later, a decisive battle was appointed, and Cormier went out, violating his promise - not to fight after Daniel did not miss the opportunity to argue for the title of greatest grave UFC, but lost this time. Now Miocich and Cormier spent 25 minutes in the octagon, and for the first time it became noticeable that Daniel passed.

The defeat was not devastated, but it turned out to be indisputable. Cormier left the sport in a series of two defeats, but at the same time there are a few large achievements, which are enough to be in the Hall of Glory of the UFC.And also do not forget that Daniel has been successfully working for the UFC commentator for more than one season, speaking in bonds with John Anik, Joe Rogan or Dominic Cruz, plus he succeeds in post -match interviews and a show in the studio.

And Cormier from the year is the head coach of the war at the Hilde of Gilroots California.