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WEIGHING IN

Daniel Cormier Talks Islam, Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua | FULL INTERVIEW

WEIGHING IN

John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show

Sports

4.6531 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Josh Thomson is joined by Daniel Cormier as they discuss DC's job cageside commentating fights for his Dagestani teammates, gives his thoughts on Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua, talks Paramount/UFC deal and more. Follow Josh on X/Instagram @therealpunk Intro 00:00 DC is a Busy Man 00:37 What Do You Enjoy About Coaching 03:36 Living in California vs Texas 03:57 Reclassifying Kids for Sports in School 09:11 DC Strife with Thailand 16:46 RAF 20:30 Rockhold vs Covington/Nickal vs Romero 24:31 Joshua vs Paul 26:57 Arlovski Situation 31:03 Watching Team AKA Succeed 35:48 How Does The Paramount Deal Effect DC 45:39 Most Proud Of/Regret from Career 53:19

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0:00.0

Well, it's Christmas Eve and guess what?

0:01.9

I decided to do some door knocking.

0:03.9

And I'm going to knock on my boy DC's door right now and wake him up. He just got back from Thailand, a little jet lag, but I come bearing gifts. So we're going to walk in and see how he's doing, haven't seen him in probably about five, six years. My brother. My brother, come bearing gifts. Oh, yeah. What's up, man? I don't know. I ain't seen for him, man.

0:22.2

Nice to see you.

0:23.1

Nice to see it.

0:24.0

How good? brother to bear and give us. Oh, yeah. What's up, man? How you doing, man? Nice to see you, man. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. How you been? Good, man, good. Yeah, getting ready for Christmas. I hated it. What? I hate it every second. Why? I'm going to grab my coffee outside. We'll come back in and get started. It's Christmas Eve and I'm coming to you from the house of Dale Cormier, former UFC champion, multiple double champion. But man, it's been a long time. You and I have a caught up in six, seven years. Yeah, it's been a long. What took he so long? Bro. Like, seriously, though, Josh, like, why? I was thinking out whenever I said, I'm like, what took us so long to interview me?

0:55.8

What do you mean?

0:56.7

What do you mean?

1:14.0

Look how hard it was for me to settle you down in just the last two days. Yeah. We weren't we scheduled for yesterday? We were supposed to talk on sette? Here we are on Christmas Eve. in your house instead of at your gym instead of idiot i say where do meet you to do this? I was, uh, you're lucky you have a good camera guy. Yeah, he's the best. Um, Brian's the best. I was, um, I came back from town Sunday. Yeah, super late. And dude, all I wanted to do was get home. Yeah. But then in San Francisco, we get there. They go, we're holding for 30 minutes because it's busy. I'm like, God, I just want to go home. Then we get on the runway. They're like, we have a 25 minute. It took an hour extra to even get to the gate. Then when I finally got back to the United States, I was so happy. And then I had a match on Monday.

1:47.4

No, Monday I had practices.

1:49.3

Two of them.

1:50.2

And then just hanging out on my kids.

1:52.2

Then Tuesday, we had a match out in Bacaville, like two hours away earlier.

1:57.0

Why do that to the high school kids?

1:58.4

Like, it's Christmas week.

1:59.6

Like, why do you guys have duels and matches?

2:01.8

Like, well, because you try to get them in before the holidays.

2:05.9

Because, so we have some really big tournaments coming up after the break.

2:12.1

So if we get the match in before, because we wrestled as team Vacaville,

2:16.2

they're a good team in the North area, Northern California. Last year we did it after Christmas. So it interrupts that little break that they get, that little reset. Yeah. So this year, the coach was like, can we do it before? I said, yeah, man, we'll drive out there. It is far. I drove before I was yesterday. Yeah. Amaz traffic and then during the holiday time, This is an 80 for gosh. And then we had a, we do an annual Christmas party at my gym. So we did my Christmas party last. You had a toy drive, correct? Yeah, we did toys and food. I tried the video you for that so I can see how much you give back to the community and build them. But then you call, you said, hey, man, I'm tired. and I was off. And so this is why it takes me so long in the interview. Josh, I slept for 12 minutes yesterday. When I got home, I set my time alarm for 12 minutes. I got home. My kids ran upstairs. I laid on the couch. I set my clock for like 12 minutes from when I was laying down. I slept

3:09.0

and I got up and I went to practice. It was a it's busy, but I love it. How the matches go.

3:14.9

We won. Yeah, we won the match. We won 10 to 14 matches. You know what was the best about it?

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