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How Daniel Cormier balances fighters' fragile feelings with the need to call it as he sees it

Toward the end of their run on ESPN's “DC & RC” show, Daniel Cormier heard his co-host say something that blew his mind, only maybe not how you’d think.

This was just a couple months ago, in the aftermath of UFC 297 where Raquel Pennington won a lackluster decision victory over Mayra Bueno Silva to claim the vacant UFC women’s bantamweight title.

“Ryan [Clark], he said something about how, if that’s the best we can do then we should just cancel the whole division,” Cormier told Yahoo Sports. “I told him, ‘Dude, you can just say anything.