The Daniel Cormier and Patrick Cummins feud in one easily digestible article

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The Daniel Cormier and Patrick Cummins fight is only a week away, but it seems like it’s years in the making. Confuse, let me break it down for you :

Patrick Cummins was working at a coffee shop this time a week ago, he had 4 pro fights and was on the wrong side of 30-years-old. Cormier was primed to make his light heavyweight debut against a former champion, until Rashad Evans got hurt and had to pull out of the fight.

The UFC came a knockin’ at Cummins’ door, he gets fired from his coffeeshop job, then we get this absolutely wild interview on FOX:

So, Cummins made Cormier cry? What? Well, it’s actually true, and Daniel Cormier, being the nice, accessible guy that he is came clean for Shootmedia:

“This was around 2004. I lost my daughter in 2003, so I was having a whole bunch of personal issues,” Cormier told Shoot Media. “I called my head coach at the time, and I told him the story Pat (has been telling). And he was like, ‘That’s not what happened. What is he talking about? He’s just lying.’

“(We) were simulating the Olympic Games, just as (Cummins) said, and he did beat me in a match. I said, ‘We’re going again.’ The coach told me, ‘No, the Olympics are over for you. You lost.’ That’s what freaked me out, and I ran out. And I did cry. I was pissed off. I had to put myself in the mindset that I was wrestling for an Olympic gold medal and I had given it away. My coach wouldn’t let me get my hands back on him.”

“We did compete against each other in reality one time,” he said. “I was at 211 pounds, and he wrestled at heavyweight. He was the No. 3 heavyweight in the country, and I beat him 7-0. So when we really did strap our boots on and wrestled each other, I beat him pretty good.”

So now we have an absolutely enthralling storyline to follow into this fight that was once just another thrown together at the last minute scrap. I like it.