D. Johnson (photo) was defended by Cormier (Photo: Facebook/UFC)
In addition to being UFC light heavyweight champion, Daniel Cormier He is also a fight analyst on a North American channel. And, even though hired by Ultimate, DC was against the company when commenting on the situation of Demetrious Johnson, flyweight champion of the event, who reported having received threats that his division would be closed if he did not agree to face TJ Dillashaw.
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Cormier said that DJ should demand a million-dollar salary and that the UFC should pay US$1 million for Johnson to accept facing Dillashaw, former champion of the top division, the bantamweight division.
“UFC, if you want Demetrious Johnson in front TJ Dillashaw, pay the guy! Pay him $1 million and say, this is your fight. I know it's a lot of money for a flyweight, but he's number one in the world pound for pound. So pay him and let him fight. Pay him as he deserves, as the number one in the world”, commented Cormier, in an interview with the UFC Tonight program, admitting that the DJ's fault for not being better known to the average public lies more with Ultimate than with the champion himself.
“The UFC doesn’t really understand how to promote it, because they have to be creative. He is smaller. It's dominant. Even when Anderson Silva ran their division, their numbers weren't that high, so they need to be creative. I don't know if they've been creative. But I know this: Johnson was part of it,” he declared.
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