Daniel Cormier has consistently appeared to have the endgame in order.
The UFC heavyweight champion has everything set up for a wonderful, satisfying life after blended hand to hand fighting.
An adoring family. A prospering profession in communicating. Changed business interests, including two or three Los Angeles barbershops and a jab eatery in Miami.
Much more astonishingly, Cormier really sees that it is so critical to escape battling with his wellbeing and accounts flawless, and he has arranged this exit for quite a long time.
The battle game is covered with bosses who remained excessively long and declined into hackneyed palookas. Cormier is resolved to maintain a strategic distance from the decay, notwithstanding when all proof with the exception of the schedule proposes he is still at his pinnacle.
Cormier said;
"I do know that when I leave this game, it's going to be tough, because I'll still be able to compete,"
"I'm going to leave this game because I want to value what I leave behind, and I want it to last forever."
Cormier acknowledges he went marginally past his long-set due date of his 40th birthday celebration so he could battle at UFC 241 this end of the week. The previous two-belt champion demands he won't stick around any longer, if by any stretch of the imagination.
Cormier inquired:
"I had the greatest year of my career at 39, so it's like, 'Man, am I going to leave now?'" "Maybe after this one. I don't know. But I feel good. I've trained hard. I've prepared."
Despite the fact that a third shot at Jon Jones may keep him around for a couple of months longer, Cormier (22-1, 1 no-challenge) effectively could be venturing into a confine for the last time Saturday night in Anaheim for his rematch with Stipe Miocic (18-3).
On the off chance that he leaves, Cormier could fill in as a model for future stars exploring the hazardous dusks of their professions. He demands he needs to be the person who did it the correct way.
However in a loosening up minute this week over an ordinarily solid lunch of flame broiled chicken and rice, Cormier wouldn't fret recognizing this long farewell is by no means as simple as it looks.
"Make no mistake about it: There is worry about when you don't get to run through the curtain anymore,"
"There is worry about not having those moments in the back (of the arena) where you're like, 'Aaaaaaah!' ... Even those nerves, those scared nerves, are things that I look forward to. I look forward to that pit in my stomach. That little bit of uncertainty before the competition. It's the greatest feeling in the world. We worry about guys and drugs? That's mine. That's always been my drug: competition. It's like, what am I going to do without it?"
Cormier turned 40 on March 20. He had constantly wanted to get his last battle in just before that game changing birthday, yet two components planned against it: Brock Lesnar's uncertainty on a MMA rebound for the most worthwhile matchup Cormier could get, trailed by Cormier's choice to have back medical procedure in December.
His recuperation took him past the birthday he had been anticipating for quite a long time. His body's underlying reaction filled in as a token of the intelligence of his arrangement to get out — however he in the end acknowledged 40 is nothing similar to he dreaded.
"Through three or four weeks, I was like, 'This is rough,'"
"'I'm way too heavy. I'm not moving well. I'm getting hit more than I need to.' And then I started to shed some weight and get in shape, and once I did that, it was smooth sailing. I feel like I'm as good as I've ever been right now. My back feels good. My cardio feels phenomenal. I feel like I'm still developing."
When he prepared his body for the dramatic finale, he acknowledged a rematch with Miocic, the long-prevailing heavyweight champ who couldn't last one full round the previous summer. Miocic's solid wrestling and boxing were no counterpart for Cormier, who has never lost to anybody with the exception of Jones.
"What I did to him last year was a fairy tale for me, taking him out within one round,"
"I don't think that happens again. I'm preparing for a longer, harder fight."
Be that as it may, while Cormier is deferential of Miocic, he has one eye on the future, regardless of whether it's retirement or one progressively took shots at Jones.
As befitting a gifted telecaster, Cormier focuses on the optics of his vocation. As an eager online networking client, he isn't keen on turning into an image once more, either.
"I have some bad visuals with the crying, but I've only got a couple of (bad) visuals,"
"I don't want it to become five, six, seven times, because those reactions will stay the same every time I lose, because I know who I am. So I'm going to have to walk away from this thing before I know I can't compete anymore."
Cormier recognizes what he needs to do, and he realizes how to do it. Be that as it may, even he isn't actually certain how he'll passage against each contender's last rival.
"Maybe I'll just compete on the TV side," "Maybe compete on the golf course. I don't know. But I think I'll be OK."
And afterward, with a grin:"Video games."