Topic: Daniel Cormier
Daniel Cormier's tragic Thanksgiving story
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11.24.2011 | 10:22 AM ET
Take Thanksgiving Day, 1986. Cormier is a seven year-old kid growing up in Lafayette, Louisiana, when his father, long since split from Cormier's mother, is shot and killed by the father of his second wife.
You can almost imagine the way this story goes. Thanksgiving dinner with the in-laws, an argument ensues, things get out of hand. Then bang. You've got a tragedy in your living room.
"And the guy walked free," Cormier says, relating the story now like it happened to somebody else. "I'm sure she was thinking, well, I've already lost my husband. I don't want to lose my father too. Plus, it was his house. You know, self-defense."
On paper, that seems like the kind of event that would immediately change everything about your life. But really, Cormier says, it was his older brother, who was 19 at the time, who took the brunt of that one, at least for the time being.
"I think I was young enough that I didn't really know enough to really understand what happened. Then I got older and realized, hey, my dad got murdered. But I was lucky. My parents were divorced, and my stepdad had been there for me since I was about three. He was my father, really. My dad was my dad, but he was my father. He raised me to be the man that I am today."
This guy is a real survivor, I'm a fan.
"I have not yet begun to defile myself. "
Fighter Details
- Name: Daniel Cormier
- Pro MMA Record: 22-3-0, 1 NC (Win-Loss-Draw)
- Nickname: DC
- Current Streak: 2 Losses
- Age: 1979-03-20 | Date of Birth: 1979.03.20
- Last Fight: August 15, 2020 in UFC
- Weight Class: Heavyweight | Last Weigh-In: 236.0 lbs
- Affiliation: American Kickboxing Academy
- Height: 5'11" (181cm) | Reach: 72.5" (184cm)
- Career Disclosed Earnings: $4,306,500 USD
- Born: Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
- Fighting out of: San Jose, California
- College: N/A
- Foundation Style: Wrestling
- Head Coach: Bob Cook
- Other Coaches: N/A
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Responses
11.24.2011 | 10:24 AM ET
"You don't have to be perfect, just dont be fraudulant"
11.24.2011 | 10:29 AM ET
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
11.24.2011 | 10:36 AM ET
are they still bothering with that?
"You don't have to be perfect, just dont be fraudulant"
11.24.2011 | 10:44 AM ET
"I live, I die, I live again."
11.24.2011 | 11:31 AM ET
"I really feel like I'm the most dangerous guy out there" BJ Penn........... UFC on Fox 2 event winner :)
11.24.2011 | 2:45 PM ET
11.24.2011 | 2:47 PM ET
"I'm bi-polar...nice jab, mean hook."
11.25.2011 | 12:37 AM ET
"Grrr."
11.25.2011 | 12:48 AM ET
"I don't want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet, you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it."
11.25.2011 | 1:30 AM ET
Hopefully the meaning of my words still hit their mark. No wonder my 1911 never rusts, maybe its galvanized. Now tell me something about DU....
"Grrr."