Our 2018 Fighter of the Year: Daniel Cormier

When Daniel Cormier lost to Jon Jones in his last fight of 2017, it was all over. He had squandered his second crack at Jones and lost his title, leaving himself no visible path back to his arch nemesis for a third encounter. How devastating was it? When Cormier wept in the Octagon afterwards, it was with abandon — the gravity of everything he’d worked for gone with a well-timed head kick. It was one of the most humanizing moments in UFC history, and a reminder of how cruelly fate c