Despite boos, Daniel Cormier's plan was to avoid 'catastrophic' loss

To call the UFC 200 fight week volatile, unfair, or difficult for UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier would be putting it mildly. Cormier was at first scheduled to fight Jon Jones, only to have Anderson Silva fill in on roughly 24 hours notice as a substitute after going through a period of uncertainty about whether he'd fight at all would be more than most could handle.
Cormier managed to persevere, taking a unanimous decision victory on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Veg