UFC White House ‘environment’ played role in Justin Gaethje beating Ilia Topuria says Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier thinks something outside of the cage boosted Justin Gaethje’s possibilities at UFC Freedom 250.

‘The Highlight’ left Sunday’s UFC event on the White House as the brand new undisputed lightweight champion, having pulled off an enormous upset.

Gaethje ended Topuria’s undefeated run in mixed martial arts, with the damage he dealt across 4 rounds ultimately causing the Spaniard’s team to call the essential event fight within the corner.

Almost no person was predicting such a brutal end to Topuria’s reign, and ‘DC’ has shared his theory on considered one of the contributing aspects within the result.

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Daniel Cormier believes Justin Gaethje received a lift from the White House setting at UFC Freedom 250

Gaethje’s victory closed out an event that was described as a celebration for the US’ 250th birthday with an American victory.

Cormier believes the occasion and environment helped ‘The Highlight’ upset the percentages to finish Topuria’s championship reign on June 14.

“After we were talking about this thing and we were constructing this thing, I told (Jon) Anik and (Joe) Rogan, ‘I imagine that a setting can propel people to great things,’” Cormier said in a video on his YouTube channel.

“I’m not the variety of person who doesn’t think that the environment can play an element in the results of the fight. Tonight, I feel like that happened.

“Justin Gaethje all the time is a dog, but while you begin to couple every part together — the birthday of the US of America, the White House South Lawn, fighting an undefeated champion — all of it worked perfectly,” he added.

‘El Matador’ was on a legendary run prior to Sunday’s devastating setback in Washington, DC.

Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 last summer to turn out to be the promotion’s tenth two-division champion in history.

Before moving as much as 155 kilos, the Spaniard had knocked out Max Holloway and Alexander Volkanovski in consecutive featherweight title fights.