Daniel Cormier’s Disdain for 12-to-6 Elbows
During a recent episode of Funky and the Champ with Ben Askren, Cormier shared his thoughts on the lifting of the ban on 12-to-6 elbows.
“I don’t like that,” Cormier expressed. “I don’t like 12-to-6 elbows, and I don’t like soccer kicks. Here’s my thought: when I was fighting Rumble Johnson, you couldn’t [move the elbows straight down]. But you could do it with an arch, so I was able to cut Rumble with an arching elbow, but it came straight down…”
“I just don’t want anything that makes fighting look like a street fight, that’s it. John McCain, before he passed, was against fighting because it was “human cockfighting”. They would show these videos of gang fights, people running around, and people on the ground. It starts to look like that again, and that’s not good man. The moment we start opening those rules again, it’s gonna be more and more and more, and ultimately we’ll get back to soccer kicks.”
On the other hand, Cormier’s colleague and broadcast partner Joe Rogan has been a vocal opponent of the ban for years. As for Jones, he now has the opportunity to potentially overturn his only career defeat following the elimination of the ban.
