Daniel Cormier sees one prepared UFC light-weight who would ship the products in opposition to Justin Gaethje.

Gaethje (25-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) wants a brand new opponent after Dan Hooker withdrew from their five-round co-main occasion March 8 at UFC 313 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) as a consequence of a fractured hand. Cormier reached out to the previous UFC interim light-weight champion, Gaethje, who instructed him he completely plans to stay on the cardboard.

“Justin Gaethje continues to be combating,” Cormier stated on his YouTube channel. “I known as him this morning, and my speedy query was, ‘Do you’ve gotten any plans to not combat this weekend?’ He goes, ‘Are you f*cking loopy?’ That’s Justin Gaethje. He goes, ‘Are you loopy? In fact I’m combating.’ I say, ‘What’s up, JG? What are you doing?’ He goes, ‘I’m sleeping. It’s 7:30 within the morning right here.’”

The likes of Rafael Fiziev, Renato Moicano and Mateusz Gamrot supplied to step in and substitute Hooker. If it have been as much as Cormier, he’d wish to see Gaethje combat Moicano, who’s coming off a short-notice title loss to Islam Makhachev at UFC 311.

Cormier says historical past proves that Moicano (20-6-1 MMA, 12-6 UFC) is the correct man for the job.

“So I requested JG, ‘Who would you like?’ He goes, ‘I don’t care who I’ve to combat. I’ll combat any of these guys,’” Cormier stated. “I stated for me, ‘I would like you vs. Renato Moicano.’ I believe that that’s a enjoyable combat. I believe that that combat seems extra to individuals just like the combat in opposition to Dan Hooker, what we have been all anticipating. I get it, Moicano simply misplaced to Islam Makhachev in the way in which that he did, however JG is coming off a loss, too. He obtained beat by Max Holloway in brutal vogue.

“We realized that Moicano couldn’t compete with Makhachev. There’s no knocking him for that. Why not match these two up? We all know that ‘Cash’ Moicano is all the time there to combat. We all know that he’s prepared to face and commerce with the perfect of them. We all know that he possesses submission capability. We all know Moicano can do something within the octagon. We all know that he’s going to deliver the present, and we all know Moicano is prepared.”

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