The Daniel Cormier Show - DC & Ben Askren on ENDING DC vs. Jon Jones BEEF, Pimblett vs. Gaethje, Topuria IS BACK
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Ben Askren IS BACK with Daniel Cormier in another edition of Funky and the Champ! DC and Ben talk about Nate Diaz clapping back at Askren for his past comments on Nate being below average in the UFC. Plus, hear Ben try to convince DC to end his beef and rivalry with Jon Jones, imploring Cormier to move on from the back-and-forth. DC and Askren also discuss the chaos in the lightweight division between Justin Gaethje, Paddy Pimblett, Arman Tsarukyan, and the champion Ilia Topuria. Ben predicts who will win the interim belt at UFC 324, and talks about the ongoing controversy between Topuria and Tsarukyan. And don't miss the guys react to the viral AI video that they made of DC, Khabib, and Islam, Ilia Topuria's fight plan for 2026, and Conor McGregor's next fights in the UFC!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.4 | The volume. |
| 0:10.0 | Can you? |
| 0:11.4 | Come on. |
| 0:12.0 | Nobody. |
| 0:16.5 | Ben. |
| 0:18.4 | I don't have much voice. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't have much voice, but, hey, you see me in this white shirt? |
| 0:23.5 | Don't I look angelic? |
| 0:26.8 | And gel, I know you too well to ever feel like you'll be angelic. |
| 0:31.0 | So I'm just normal? |
| 0:34.1 | Well, we'll try to pull you back from the dark side. |
| 0:36.2 | They got me, so maybe we'll get you too. Hey. You can't make jokes about that, man. Why not? Because, okay, we can make jokes about it. I don't think we're in a clear a little bit. Hey, Ben, so how's everything? How's how's life? I was everything. It's been a couple weeks now. Good. Yeah. Since we did this. Hey, the reception to us doing our podcast again was very, very good. |
| 0:57.3 | I enjoyed that. |
| 0:58.1 | I like people seem to be happy that you were back when in reality, a lot of times you be pissing them off, man. |
| 1:05.9 | You would be pissed them off. |
| 1:07.2 | You know why I piss them off is because, you know, it's your fault. |
| 1:09.7 | You make me say the things. Although I would like to, could I address the controversy for the last time? Go ahead. Because, you know, okay, so, well, two things. Number one, he goes that you just died. Are you still going to be a hater? And it's like, okay, number one, I don't really, I wasn't really making an opinion. I was making a statement of facts. So, and also just because you die doesn't mean you can't live anymore |
| 1:28.6 | what you mean well i made a statement of fact about nade diaz's record and i said it's average |
| 1:33.8 | and so like i'll just give you another example if you said if danil said hey ben what was your record |
| 1:38.3 | in the fc it was one and two you know what it's below average that is below average there's just |
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