One week after pounding out previously unbeaten Lucas Browne in Australia, it appears former U.S....

One week after pounding out previously unbeaten Lucas Browne in Australia, it appears former U.S. Olympic wrestler Daniel Cormier (3-0) has already booked a return trip Down Under.

Australian heavyweight Soa Palelei (11-2) tells InfiniteMMA that he and Cormier will battle for the XMMA Heavyweight title on November 6th in Sydney.

Before worrying about Palelei, however, Cormier will have other matters to attend to. Next Friday, August 13th, he'll take on King of the Cage heavyweight champ Tony Johnson Jr. (4-0) in a scheduled five-round title bout. Eight days later on August 21st, Cormier will re-enter the Strikeforce cage to face Jason Riley (9-3) in Houston, Texas.

Photo by Dave Mandel for Sherdog.

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He'll quickly learn that fighting that often in MMA

Is not the same as competing that often wrestling.

Walking the line between intelligence and ignorance since 1985
@deowade

by Damon O. on Aug 7, 2010 9:56 AM EDT reply actions

dude sure as hell gets around

1148 days and counting without a Jon Fitch finsh

by II SMASH II on Aug 7, 2010 10:26 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Holy shit

He isn’t kidding around. I admire his determination, but none of those guys are easy wins. I think that he and Bobby Lashley need to talk about finding a middle ground.

"I have trained to fight an army. There is no way one man can stop me if many cannot." -Georges St. Pierre

by Charles Awad on Aug 7, 2010 10:39 AM EDT reply actions

Cormier schedule+ Lashley schedule÷2= middle ground

Makes sense to me

1148 days and counting without a Jon Fitch finsh

by II SMASH II on Aug 7, 2010 11:27 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

glad

he’s competing this much

Facts don't come with points of view.

by Robert Livingston on Aug 7, 2010 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

Daniel Cormier is a beast. He’s built like a brick shithouse. If he learns how to sub people when he takes their back, he’ll do big things in strikeforce.

by brokenlegs on Aug 7, 2010 10:43 AM EDT reply actions

While i think that SF definitely shouldn’t let him fight 1 week before his fight with Riley (esp. on a competing program), i have to applaud Cormier for taking tough fights so early in his career.

His 3rd and 4th pro fight were/are scheduled for 5 rounds and if everything goes smooth his 6th will be a title fight,too.

by KOQ24 on Aug 7, 2010 11:14 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah if he loses to Riley he’s pretty much guaranteed another 5 rounder

"Ten more seconds is all I ever ask. That's the good thing I learned about being KO'd twice. You don't see it coming -it's like death- you don't plan for it so don't wait for it. So many people are afraid of getting Ko'd that their hands stay home, but not me. I got to go out there and shoot the lights out and fall down" Jens Pulver

by StevenGiles on Aug 7, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

oh shit

great fight. get those wins in while you can, old man.

a kitten dies every time you compare an individual sport to a team sport.

by Marvin Malehooves on Aug 7, 2010 11:28 AM EDT reply actions

Isn’t that Nick “Afrozilla” Gaston who is fighting Tony Johnson for the KOTC HW title? When did Cormier replace Gaston? That sucks too, every time I’ve seen Afrozilla on HDNet he brings the fight, entertaining guy to watch. If Cormier is indeed fighting Johnson though, good luck to him, he’s trying to do big things.

by exzacht on Aug 7, 2010 11:38 AM EDT reply actions

KOTC?

BE…What’s your source on the KOTC lineup change? The KOTC website it still listing Gaston as being the one to fight Johnson. Exzacht is right. What do you know that Sherdog and other sites don’t?

by buckeyeguy on Aug 7, 2010 2:07 PM EDT reply actions