Time for Stealth Mode
UFC must be dreaming. In a year so wrought with drug failures and sinking buyrates and miniscule ratings, they get Daniel Cormier. They get the perfect fighter with the perfect personality at the perfect time. It's the silly season of sports. At no other point in the calendar year would a press conference brawl have found this much of ESPN's oxygen. Cormier is a natural babyface. He is humble. Self-efacing. Aware of his tics and flaws and, importantly, still supremely confident in his abilities. And there's Jon Jones. For whatever flaws one wants to affix to him, this much is true: He was chosen by God to fight.