It took Daniel Cormier just four and a half minutes at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night to become the UFC's second ever two-division champion.
In UFC 226's headline fight, lightweight champion Cormier faced heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. A short right hand from Cormier with just less than 30 seconds remaining in the opening round meant that Cormier emulated Conor McGregor's feat of holding two belts simultaneously.
McGregor won the UFC lightweight title in late 2016, adding to the featherweight belt which he also held at the time.
"I was a heavyweight for a long time and I left the division. I never knew what I could become but tonight I got the answer, I'm a two-division champion, baby," Cormier told Joe Rogan after the fight.
"I'm 39-years-old and I've been second a lot of times but today, I finally accomplished everything."
The fight barely over, Cormier began promoting the next. The new champion called Brock Lesnar into the Octagon. In a moment which felt straight out of WWE, Lesnar shoved Cormier before declaring, "Let me tell you something, I walked into this building and watched a heavyweight disaster from the beginning. [Francis] Ngannou is a piece of shit. Miocic is a piece of shit. DC, I'm coming for you motherfucker."
UFC president Dana White said afterwards that a fight between Cormier and Lesnar will happen. Lesnar's one-year ban for a failed drugs test surrounding his last UFC fight against Mark Hunt ended last year.
