All salute the champion, winner of two divisions, he of both belts and of the average right.
With his victory on Saturday night in the Main Event of UFC 226, Daniel Cormier now holds the UFC titles in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions – and he wants them defend both.
So he says, anyway. So his plan is going. But we've already heard it in MMA, and we still have to see it work that way.
Remember the last double champion, this Irish guy with a love of profane stripes and a hatred of buses? He also had the idea of defending his two UFC titles after first winning the featherweight and then the lightweight belt.
It was almost two years ago. Since then, McGregor has been stripped of both belts after defending neither one nor the other. He has never competed in the entire MMA sport since he claimed that second title, and he does not seem to have any immediate plans to change that.
