Daniel Cormier is known as an American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler. He is most famous for fighting for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and winning both the heavyweight and light heavyweight world titles.
Daniel Ryan Cormier was born on March 20, 1979 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He lost his father to a local shooting when he was eight. The wrestler utilized the tragedy to propel himself forward. He went into wrestling after he was discovered fighting in the school parking garage. Interfering with the two youthful classmates who were so occupied with pointing a collapsed clench hands at one another, the school wrestling coach explained that there was a productive method for battling and that was through the school wrestling group, Days after the fact, Cormier signed up and joined the school's wrestling group.
While in Northside High School, Cormier contended in wrestling titles at the state level and won 3 titles and was voted as exceptional wrestler in the state title multiple times. When he was leaving the school, he had just lost a few times in 110 wrestling duels. Having vanquished the state, Cormier wrestled in the Greco-Roman world wrestling titles in 1995 and brought home a bronze decoration in his division.
When Cormier battled in the Xtreme Mixed Martial Arts (XMMA) Heavyweight Championship, he won his first MMA title. His subsequent title, the KOTC Heavyweight Championship came two weeks later after he crushed the then-champion, Tony Johnson. He signed up with the Strikeforce association for eight battles and won every one of them. He then went to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he won both the Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Championships. In August 2019 at UFC 242, Cormier lost his heavyweight title to challenger, Stipe Miocic after four rounds.
Daniel Cormier is married to long-term sweetheart, Salina Deleon. He proposed to her on July 4, 2014, at the Chateau Gardens in Las Vegas and they tied the knot three years later on May 27, 2017. They have two children together, a boy, Daniel Jr. was born on February 16, 2011 and a girl, Marquita Cormier was born on March 4, 2012.
Cormier previously had another little girl, Kaedyn Imri Cormier with his then-sweetheart, Carolyn Flowers, a track competitor at Oklahoma State. He lost her in an auto crash on June 14, 2003, when an 18-wheeler truck kept running into the vehicle which was carrying the 3-month old youngster in Austin, Texas. He was also previously married to a lady known as Robin in 2002. They were separated in 2003 and the marriage was done.
| Birth Date: | 20 Mar, 1979 |
| Age: | 41 yrs |
| Occupations: | Amateur wrestler Mixed martial artist Sports analyst |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Lafayette |
| Education: | Oklahoma State University–Stillwater |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist |
| Net Worth 2021: | 8 million |
