Daniel Cormier found himself face to face with Sam Hughes after her big win at UFC Vegas 55 and she had a bone to pick with him. Cormier had made some past comments about her quitting.
Sam Hughes had a very tough fight against Tecia Torres in her UFC debut and the fight was stopped in between rounds. Daniel Cormier made some comments that didn't please the new UFC signing.
“You just asked me if I thought you were quitter,” Cormier told her after the fight (MMAJunkie).
Hughes replied with a smile, “I remember the Tecia fight, been wanting to talk to you about this for a long time. You called me a quitter, and I’m not a quitter. I’ve had a chip on my shoulder for a few years now. I respect the hell out of you, but that hurt when you called me a quitter. I was like, I’m not no quitter.”
Sam Hughes explained after the fight why she wanted to put Daniel Cormier on blast. It was a demon the UFC strawweight needed to confront once she got the chance.
“I kind of had a couple dreams about that over the past couple years,” Hughes said. “Man, that really hurt whenever I had that fight with Tecia. I remember re-watching that fight a few times, and DC said I quit – I was a quitter. Man, I carried that with me for a few years now, and I’m just like, ‘I’m not a quitter.’ If anything, I’ve never quit at anything in my whole life. So I’ve just kind of carried that chip on my shoulder. And I was like, ‘Eventually I’m gonna bring that up and talk to him about it.’ But I didn’t want it to come across like me being a jerk or anything like that. But I knew I need to address this and just squash it and move on. I respect the hell out of DC. DC is in the Hall of Fame for a reason. He’s a great person. Yeah, I just wanted to squash that.”
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