Cormier anticipates on the UFC 232 and gives up the light heavyweight belt: "I will not be helpless" | to fight

– Today, I'm abandoning the title of the UFC heavyweights. I will not be deprived of a belt that I have defended for three and a half years. Being without resources suggests that you did something wrong and that I did not do it. I would rather go off like that, head up, as has always been the case, than the history books say that I've been deposed. I have defended the belt this year. I was tempted by the idea of ​​fighting for the heavyweight and I went there. I fought three times in 2018, no champion was more active than me. I am the year 's fighter, my story and my heritage will not include a title deprivation. They can keep it (belt), "he said in a statement to the American" ESPN. "

Ultimate announced that the fight between Jon Jones was valid for the light heavyweight belt, but did not make any difference. had not yet withdrawn "DC" from this position.The American indeed holds the title of the top category, won in July, when he challenged – and knocked out – the then champion Stipe Miocic at the. UFC 226.

who had three fights in 2018, only lost to Jon Jones in MMA.