The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Daniel Cormier Show - DC REACTS to Alexander Volkanovski BEATING Diego Lopes, Ruffy & Benoit TKO win

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Daniel Cormier IS BACK octagon side to give you his UFC 325 post-fight reaction to Alexander Volkanovski defeating Diego Lopes in the rematch to retain his championship! DC declares Volk "THE GOAT" of the featherweight division, surpassing Jose Aldo after another dominant victory over Lopes. Cormier also gives his reaction to the Mauricio Ruffy knockout vs. Rafael Fiziev, and Benoit Saint-Denis' impressive TKO win vs. Dan Hooker. And don't miss DC's fighter of the night, and take on the rest of the action-packed fight card from Australia! #Volume  All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the official wireless provider of UFC. They're in your corner with unlimited 5G data that will not slow you down, and that's a total power move. Guys, this fight card was built around Alexander Volcanowski. It was built around the idea that Australia's 37-year-old. year old champion could still get the job done against a young challenger who in the first fight against him fought a very competitive fight down the stretch hurting Volkanowski a couple times as the fight got long tonight or this afternoon because right now it's only 4 p.m. in Australia

Alexander Volcanozky fought even better guys he actually went out there against Diego Lopez and beat him better than he did the first time. His footwork was amazing, which is something that we have come to expect. His striking was amazing. I think what impresses me most about Vogue, he wasn't able to get any takedowns, but he's so good at dictating the exchanges, dictating when a fight takes place that guys can't really figure him out. And tonight that was the case, or this afternoon, that was the case. Diego Lopez fought better than he did the first. The first of the first. The first time, especially earlier in the fight. He did a better job of pressing forward. He did a better job of trying to impose his will on Alexander Volkanowski, but that didn't change.

Volk got one takedown in the first fight. Second fight, he got one takedown. But even though he wasn't able to get takedowns, he was able to dominate the fight in a way that when I walked into the octagon to get the decision, there was no question that Volcanozky had won. It was just a matter of whether or not you thought he won four rounds off, you won five rounds. I am up to belief that Alex probably won all five rounds. You could give him the second round, but I don't think that was far from a dominant round by Diego Lopez. You know, I think what we don't give Volk enough credit for is his fight IQ. His ability to adjust in fight, his ability to get better in fight, his ability to take better in fight, his ability to

Take whatever his opponent is giving him and then switch whatever he's doing right away. You know, in the post-fight interview, generally, when a person wins a belt or wins a fight, they're so full of energy and they're so excited and they're so happy that while they can talk to the interviewer, they are so jazzed up that it's hard to really put sentences and thoughts together. putting thoughts together whenever you win a fight it's difficult but not Alexander Volcanoz I asked him I said well how did you do it better vote and he goes well the first time we fought I was circling to the left or to the right right away from the power of Diego Lopez he goes he cut that out really well well immediately so then I just started

going to the other direction in the middle of the fight Michael and I were questioning why he was circling into the power of Diego Lopez. That was by choice. He chose to circle back towards the power because Diego is too good at cutting off the other side. But while the game plan to do that, maybe surprising to some, it's surprising to me because he was able to put that thought together

when all of his family is with him inside the octagon. They're wrapping a belt around his way. There are 20,000 people in the arena cheering his name. Like, that is, that is an experience that most people cannot handle. It's too much joy. But Volk was able to not only deal with all those emotions, formulate that sentence and tell me exactly what he wants. Now what's special by them is he'll fight anybody. Nobody wants to fight Moussar.

Nobody wants to fight Lorone. Volk is like, well, if they're next, that's who I'm fighting. He's not trying to pick fights. He's not trying to get the easiest path. He just wants to fight those guys. And I'm telling you, he's the greatest featherweight of all time. I know we love Jose Aldo. I know we love Max Holloway.

But he just won his eighth UFC featherweight title fight. For those victories are against Holloway and Aldo. The two other guys considered the greatest featherweights of all time. It was Volkanowski's night. He's the best in the world, man. He's as good as they come. The guy is tremendous. And I really don't see him slowing down anytime soon.

He's too committed. So congratulations to the champion. Once again, dude, the energy in this place when he walked out. I'm going to drop the video so you guys can hear. This place went crazy. I don't think on TV, it would have did it justice as to exactly what we were hearing out here when Volcanowski walked out. Benoit Sondini beat Dan Hooker to win his fourth fight in a row. Look at Miles in the back doing his job.

Benoit Sondonnie beat Dan Hooker to win his fort fighting. rope. When I spoke to Benoit on Wednesday, I asked him, are you going to be more patient? Are you going to take your time? He goes, I have every intention to. He goes, but I always, my intention is always, look, this is what he said to me exactly. My intention is always to be better. He goes, I know what I want to do in the fight. Everyone has a game plan, but when the fight start, it goes. He said, listen, I'm just going forward. It's going to be a class. Like, He knows that he wants to be more careful. He can't help himself.

He's just an all-action fighter. And Dan Hooker did really good to start the fight. But then Benoit just started doing Benoit things, man. Pressing, pressing, pressing, being a bit reckless, but ultimately still getting the job done. And then when he got on top, he was able to force Dan Hooker into Dan trying to take him down, knowing that Benoit was the better grappling, better scrambling. What happens?

Benw winds up on top. finishes the round either in mouth or trying to finish an arm triangle. It was crazy. It was impressive. A couple years ago, Benoit Sondini asked to fight Dustin Poyer when he won in New York. I kind of laughed at him. I said, well, you don't score or you don't hit the shot you don't take. So you got to take it, Vinwa, ha, ha.

He got that fight and he got beat. Then he lost again. But ever since then, he switched teams. None of this guy's on an absolute tear because not only is he winning. He's finishing all these fighters. So Benoit Santini now deserves one of those big fights. And I believe that he's going to get one of them. He's ranked number eight in the world right now,

but he's going to be much higher come next week. Tai Tuivasa and Talasim Tashira. That was crazy, man, for them dudes to be that exhausted down the stretch. I don't know what they have to do in order to improve the cardio, but that was crazy. Quill and Sal Kill, and Salkil, once again, gets a submission this time and gets a finish. We all fell in love with the striking after that beautiful head kick.

But Sal kills a grappler, and tonight that showed against Jamie Malarkey. Great job, Quillen. Billy Alicana, for Junior Taffa, and it started bad for Billy Alacana. He was losing the striking, but he always knew that if he got a takedown, he could go and try to submit the great striker that is Junior Tafa. He did exactly that. Took him down, took his back, re-naked choke, finish over. Cameron Rauson is the real deal.

He's good, man. The kid is getting better and better, and tonight he looked great against Cody Brundage. Jacob Malkund, beat Torres Finney tonight. Game Finney is first loss. It was an amazing performance by Al-Qud. I coached Finney. I thought this was the greatest matchup for Torres Finney. That was proven wrong tonight with the performance of Jacob

Malcolm. Fenni did tear his LCL in the very first round. So we'll see what happens with Jake, with Torres. Jonathan Mikhailov was getting beat by old man Elliott, took him to the ground, submitted him. Those guys had some bad blood, but he got it done. Congratulations to Yizan. Oh, awfully won that fight. That was a robbery. I actually, I actually wrote, look, I circled Yizan before I went in to get the decision because I thought he won, but they actually gave the decision the off leave. I didn't think that was right. Don Marfan, Kiyo Chiro Nakamura, and Lawrence Louis won the road to the UFC contracts tonight. So congrats to those guys. Guys, it's top of my total wireless performance of the night. That's going to go to

Mauricio Rufi. Rishio Rufi knocked out. The great Rafael Zeev. Look, man, this fight could to win a number of ways, but I did not expect it to go the way that it did with Ruffy finishing him. So for that, Maricio Rupi, getting the biggest one of his entire career, he's going to get my total wireless performance of the night. You guys know how much I love and appreciate every one of you for always supporting me, for always holding me down, for always watching my back as I go on this journey with my job here at the UFC. I appreciate you all so much. I hope. we all continue to grow together. Guys, this post-flight reaction video was presented by Total Wireless, the official wireless partner of the UFC.

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