The Daniel Cormier Show - DC REACTS to Alexander Volkanovski TKO win vs. Evloev, Petr Yan BEATS Merab Dvalishvili

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1:20 Daniel! All right, guys. UFC 333 just wrapped from the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.

1:33 And once again, God. What a fantastic night. This instant reaction post-fight is brought to you by Total Wireless, the official wireless provider of UFC. Real fans need unlimited 5G data that won't tap out. Real fans need real unlimited. Guys, Alexander Volkanovsky, I don't even have the words to describe this guy's greatness anymore.

1:58 Kind of washed out here. The camera's like, there we go.

2:01 I don't even have the words to describe his greatness. He just continues to I mean, impress and prove people wrong and answer every question we may ever have about him in terms of who he is as a fighter. He goes in there against a Vloyev, a guy who is undefeated, who so many people did not want to fight.

2:22 Not only does he win the fight, he finishes him in the second round. Guys, earlier in the week, I spoke to Volk and he told me he was going to finish the fight.

2:32 Take a listen.

2:32 I think, uh, He ain't going to be as successful as he probably plans on being, which is going to be exciting for the fans. And, yeah, I think the fans will be in for a treat for this one. I believe I'll get the finish as well.

2:44 Right there, you see, he said he was going to get this fight done, and I.

2:47 Think he said the second round.

2:49 You know, when a guy builds that level of confidence in a second title reign, taking on younger guys now.

3:00 It's hard to quantify... who he is and what he can be.

3:04 I was speaking to Volk earlier and he said, it's amazing the love that I get from people in fighting, fans, fellow fighters.

3:14 And I told him, I said, because you're a legend, bro.

3:16 Most times when people are legends, they're distant, they're separated, they're doing commentary, they're doing so many other things but fighting. But Volkanovski is still walking amongst all of his peers still performing at a super elite level, and really still moving the bar back in terms of what a champion is supposed to be. He starred in a movie. He has his Cooking with Volk series. His popularity is through the roof. And the best thing about him is you love when good things happen to good people. Volk is a good person through and through. And we have seen him through ups and.

3:55 Downs, right? We saw him.

3:57 Through the Malkachev fights where he got finished and then he lost to Ilya and people started to question whether or not he still had it.

4:05 We saw him deal with the emotional.

4:07 Effects of the losses where he was telling us he came back so fast because he couldn't deal with himself not doing something. So now he's back on top of the world and it really is tremendous to see and it makes me very happy. that this guy is experiencing what he's experiencing. Now, I did not love hearing that he said, I told my wife if I didn't take too much damage, I might come back, and hell, I might come back.

4:34 I had no idea he was thinking of retirement.

4:37 Maybe that's foolish because he's 38 years old, but I had no idea he was thinking about walking away from this thing, and I hope that he does not walk away from this thing.

4:49 He's got title. He's got challengers. Hold on, guys. I'm working. He's got challengers.

4:53 Obviously, John Silva was in the building and so many other great guys that he could fight at 145. He's got super fight options at 155 with the champion Justin Gaethje.

5:04 There are just options for Volk, and if we know Volk.

5:08 You would imagine that he would try to pursue some of those options as he goes forward in his career, but right now everything is coming up good for Alexander Volkanovski from the acting career to the cooking career and obviously the fighting career is going very very good for Volkanovski.

5:26 I can't wait to see what happens for him next.

5:29 In the co-main event, Pyotr Ion beat Murav Duvalishvili to end their trilogy. It was one of the best fights That I've seen in a really long time. And the beautiful thing about that fight was. You saw both of the guys have and fight the fights that they needed. In order to win. So in round one and two.

5:49 We saw Marab fight. The fight that he needed to be fighting in order to win. We saw him fight the third round. For three and a half minutes of that same type of fight. Until Jan was able to hurt him. And then in round four and five. We saw Piotr Jan actually be able to. really impart himself and really take the lead in the fight in order to pull away and get the victory over Merab Diwalishwili.

6:17 You know, Piotr Jan is a great champion. He might be the greatest band of weight of all time.

6:21 And I know at times it seems like we say that about a lot of people, but he has defended this belt on a number of occasions. He was beating Aljamain Sterling before the illegal knee that cost him the title.

6:33 He's won the belt back. Now he's beat Merab Diwalishwili again.

6:36 And he seems to be on his way to defending, or at least trying to defend his title on multiple occasions.

6:45 You know, he is.

6:46 One of the smartest guys I have ever seen inside the Octagon. His boxing is elite, his wrestling defense is elite, and his fight IQ is up there with some of the best in the world. You know, he actually told me in the Octagon, my plan was to let Murab gas himself out. How do you know that's going to work when we have seen Murab on so many different occasions just exhaust himself and his.

7:11 Opponents while they try to let that happen for them?

7:16 But it's the damage that Jan is able to inflict on him that allows for him to fight the fight the way that he does against Marab Diwalis. And once again, in two fights back to back, Marab got tired. He was able to get Marab tired over the course of the 25 minutes that they shared inside of the octagon.

7:38 Body kicks, body punching, fight IQ smarts. Piotr Jan has it all.

7:44 And.

7:46 It's always fun whenever you get to come to an event and watch two of the best champions and two of the best of all time compete on the same night.

7:55 And they both deliver. And in Abu Dhabi tonight, we got that.

7:58 And the crowd was going crazy, guys. This place, it's far to get here. It's really hot when you're here. But when you're in Abu Dhabi, man, the way these people treat you, the hospitality is like nothing I've ever seen. The fan engagement is like nothing I've ever seen. The energy surrounding these fights is insane, and I know that those are the types of things that propel these athletes forward as they're inside the octagon. Lonnie Kavanaugh hit one of the nicest uppercuts I have ever seen to finish Tamirov.

8:35 That dude slipped.

8:36 His hand was up, left uppercut, drops him, goes and gets the finish. Tamirov was knocking people out. And Kavanaugh took his time, he was patient, and he ultimately got a finish. And that's exactly what that kid needed. There has been a lot of hype pressed upon this kid in a very short period of time because he's fought such good competition.

8:55 Early in his career.

8:56 He needed that after losing the last fight against Brandon Roydell to put him back on the right path and remind people of who Lonnie Kavanaugh is.

9:05 That was amazing. Volkov got a big victory tonight. I thought Volkov.

9:11 Cements himself as number one contender as long as Tom Aspinall is not right back after the title fight in November. Or unless Alex Pereira has an insane knockout of Sergey Pavlovich. I believe that Volkov reintroduced himself to a title opportunity. Hey, a finish would have been better. But he was more aggressive tonight and he fought better. Aaron Pico, beautiful knockout.

9:36 over Kata, we have expected a lot out of Aaron Pico his entire life, now he seems to be ready to deliver on all the hype and the promises that we have made to you about who Aaron Pico is, that was tremendous to watch, and I'm really happy for Aaron, because after that Lerone Murphy fight, man, everybody was ready to give up on him, he went back, reassessed, got himself together, and now he seems like a guy that at some point will challenge for the UFC championship.

10:08 Dominic Reyes with a big knockout victory today over... Let me look at this. I'm looking at my card here. Dominic Reyes knocked out.

10:19 Mirzakhanov who now all of a sudden is struggling after starting his career so wonderfully. Big win for Abus Meghamedov. Tonight over Cam Ralston with a nice submission. Grant Dawson beating Nerulo Aliyev. Colby Thickness beating Asav Choperov. Jacob Malkun losing to Vagayev. Balajioki and Daniel Santos want the decision with Santos winning. Cody Steele with a big finish. And Yasmin Lucindo with a decision victory. UFC 333 was amazing.

10:50 My total wireless performance of the night will go to the great Alexander Volkanovski.

10:55 Because to go in there.

10:56 And beat an undefeated fighter in the way that he did at 38 years old to defend the championship once again, unreal. The record book is littered with Alexander Volkanovski. He is justifiably my total wireless fighter of the night with my total wireless performance of the night. Guys, I'm about to jump on a plane back to the United States. Abu Dhabi has once again been great. And I can't wait until we get back here next year. Until next time, like, subscribe, tell your friends to tell their friends that DC's got a YouTube channel.

11:33 And I'm giving you guys backstage access like this. I mean, the octagon really is beautiful, huh? The octagon really is beautiful. Until next time, guys. Peace.