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Published 14:30 4 Nov 2018 GMT
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"Sometimes I go into the Octagon, and I hear in the build-up, ‘When is this guy going to get old?’" Cormier said in his post-fight press conference.
https://twitter.com/btsportufc/status/1058941322604756992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw "It could happen overnight. I thought it happened this morning when I sneezed, and I slipped my back out. Seriously. We got some pictures that we may release later in the week. I sneezed, and because I sneezed, my back slipped out. I tried to do my morning run and it wasn’t happening."At around 12 or 1 o’clock it was to the point where I was kind of singed over and leaning and Bob Cook said, ‘If you don’t get better, then we’re going to have to make a decision on whether or not you’re going to fight.’ It was real close."
Cormier hopes to hang up his gloves before he turns 40 next year and is already targeting a retirement fight on March 2 in Las Vegas. Former heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar is currently the front-runner to share the Octagon with Cormier for the final time, while 'DC' is also open to the idea of a rematch with Stipe Miocic or the realisation of a trilogy with Jon Jones at 205lbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaI7KxF5MVw Let's just hope there is no last-minute sneeze drama like there was this weekend."I said, ‘If you let me take a nap, I’ll see if I feel better,’" Cormier continued. "So I woke up and went for a walk, and when I went for a walk and got active, my back started to release a little bit. So it was very scary because I had no idea how we were going to explain that one. I was like, ‘I don’t know how we’re going to explain this, when I sneezed and hurt my back.’ That’s getting old. That’s what that is.
"Once I started feeling better, I just really turned up the feeling better. Sometimes you can almost mentally make yourself feel better. But again, this is a three-week training camp, and generally when I’m in fight week, after three weeks my back starts to go bad. So take a few days off to recover, but I usually have five weeks left of training. So it just so happens that it happened on the day of the fight."
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