Daniel Cormier is one of the few champ-champs in UFC history, so his perspective is certainly worth something.
In 2018, then-light heavyweight champion Cormier moved to heavyweight and captured a second title by knocking out Stipe Miocic. This February, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (25-1 MMA, 12-0 UFC) looks to do something similar when he fights lightweight champ Islam Makhachev (23-1 MMA, 12-1 UFC) at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia.
Even though he has professional and personal relationships with Makhachev due to their ties to American Kickboxing Academy, Cormier thinks Volkanovski shouldn’t be counted out, at least not on the basis of weight.
