Cyborg calls out Cormier for being paid UFC ‘shill,’ deletes tweet

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Cris Cyborg called out Daniel Cormier for being a UFC shill.

Daniel Cormier, who currently works for the UFC, has officially retired from active competition. While many other fighters have complained about low pay, the two-division champion turned UFC commentator recently praised the promotion again for giving him monetary bonuses throughout his career.

“When people talk about ‘You’re a white knight for the UFC’ why wouldn’t I be? They changed my life,” Cormier said on ESPN.

“After I had lost to Jon Jones, Lorenzo Fertitta gave me a million dollars. Him and Dana gave me a million dollars. They actually called me and said, ‘We are going to give you a million dollars for for the job that you’ve done,” he said.

“So when people say, ‘Wow you made $80 to fight Jon Jones and that was a big pay-per-view…’ No, they gave me a million dollars. I didn’t get PPV (points), I was just a challenger fighting a guy who has defended his belt all those times.”

Cris Cyborg, who has had a very long and public feud with Dana White after the way UFC treated her, wasn’t happy with Cormier’s statements. She called out the color-commentator for being a paid UFC “shill,” in a tweet that has since been deleted.

“When UFC moved UFC 232 from NV to CA on four days notice, they refused to compensate me for paid appearances I could no longer attend in Vegas. At UFC 240 they refused to buy my flights to the fights because I did camp in. I was the PPV co-main event,” Cyborg wrote. “@dc_mma you’re paid to shill.”

On a separate tweet that has also been deleted, Cyborg took shots at the UFC’s Reebok deal.

“UFC 240, they compensated me 5K to fight in the company uniform,” she wrote.

From White repeatedly taking shots at the fighter he should’ve been promoting, to insulting her appearance long before she ever joined the UFC, Cyborg had enough valid reasons to be unhappy with the promotion. She has since moved on to Bellator, but as her tweets have showed again, the longtime featherweight champion still has some gripes against her former promoter.