Daniel Cormier explains ‘odd’ part about co-main event

Daniel Cormier believes Raquel Pennington may have put Mayra Bueno Silva away at UFC 297.

Pennington (16-8 MMA, 13-5 UFC) defeated Bueno Silva (10-3-1 MMA, 5-3-1 UFC) by unanimous choice to seize the vacant girls’s bantamweight title on this previous Saturday’s co-main occasion. Bueno Silva slowed down considerably all through the struggle, permitting Pennington to take high management on the bottom, and Cormier thinks Pennington ought to have capitalized towards an exhausted Bueno Silva.

“This struggle was odd as a result of it felt like Raquel may end Mayra Bueno Silva,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “It felt like if she broke away from her and allowed for her or made her stand and commerce along with her, she may end her.

“However, as she mentioned contained in the octagon, she was so shut that she may really feel it, that it was win in any respect prices and I imply, I can’t blame her. I can’t blame her. I understand how taxing and the way mentally difficult it’s to try to turn into a UFC champion.”

Bueno Silva has far fewer UFC fights than Pennington, and Cormier mentioned that was evident in her efficiency.

“Mayra Bueno Silva’s inexperience actually confirmed in that struggle,” Cormier mentioned. “She was very drained very early. She expended means an excessive amount of vitality not solely within the struggle however within the construct to the struggle, as a result of her expectation of the best way it was purported to play out was a tad bit unrealistic, and I believe in a short time she was reminded that she was now combating at a stage that she had not competed at prior.”

For extra on the cardboard, go to MMA Junkie’s occasion hub for UFC 297.