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#6: Daniel Cormier vs. Brock Lesnar – date and event TBA
While this fight isn’t expected until some point in 2019 – hopefully the earlier the better – it’s still got casual and hardcore fans alike talking and it’s still likely to be one of the biggest-drawing fights in UFC history.
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From a sporting perspective it makes absolutely no sense, but it’s hard to deny that Daniel Cormier vs. Brock Lesnar is a must-see fight from a spectacle point of view.
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By dethroning Stipe Miocic in July to become the first UFC fighter to hold the Heavyweight and Light-Heavyweight titles at the same time, Cormier entered his name into the hat of all-time greats, and while a win over Lesnar won’t really further his legacy in that sense, it’ll almost certainly propel him into a realm of stardom he’s not experienced yet.
Lesnar for his part hasn’t fought in the Octagon since his July 2016 win over Mark Hunt – a win which has since been overturned due to Lesnar failing both a pre-fight and post-fight test for PEDs. Given he’s been back in WWE ever since – and looked as huge as ever while there – it’s anyone’s guess quite what kind of condition he’ll come into the fight with Cormier in.
Once one of the most physically imposing fighters in the history of the UFC, by the time this fight comes around Lesnar will be pushing 42 years old and eight years will have passed since he was a fully active member of the UFC roster.
In reality, this fight is probably closer to Tito Ortiz’s 2002 clash with Ken Shamrock, or Matt Hughes’s 2006 fight with Royce Gracie than any other UFC fight, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting.
A Lesnar win would cause perhaps the most chaos inside the UFC since, well, ever. Cormier isn’t likely to allow that to happen – he’s too much like Cain Velasquez in fight style, and Velasquez destroyed Lesnar when he was in his prime – but even the slightest possibility makes this a can’t miss fight.
