“Won’t be a friendly one,” Ariel Helwani and 2 time Olympian Daniel Cormier go intense back-and-forth on Twitter


“Won’t be a friendly one,” Ariel Helwani and 2 time Olympian Daniel Cormier go intense back-and-forth on Twitter

Ariel Helwani- Daniel Cormier

On one side we have former UFC’s 2 division champion, Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix winner, 2 time US Olympian, colour commentator, and fight analyst Daniel Cormier, whose achievements in combat sports, particularly MMA have been respected all over and continue to be so as Cormier works to give his opinion on ESPN and his Youtube Channel on the current scenarios of MMA.

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On the other hand, we have Ariel Helwani, experienced sports journalist, 10 times journalist of the year at the world MMA awards, has worked for premiere sports entertainment companies like ESPN, Fox, and now BT Sport and Vox Media.

Both Cormier and Helwani have worked together previously on a show known as the DC & Helwani show on ESPN, their was a certain kind of chemistry that the fans always loved about it, but now after Helwani departure from ESPN, him and Cormier have been on each other’s cold side lately.

Daniel Cormier, Ariel Helwani beefing all over Twitter!

Ariel Helwani and Daniel Cormier
Ariel Helwani and Daniel Cormier

Ariel Helwani puts out a clip of him taking his BT Sport interview of WWE’s athlete promoter Paul Heyman. He captions the video “Another 10-7 Heelwani. Perhaps the best yet.” Daniel Cormier wastes no time retweeting the tweet and calling out Helwani a “schmuck”. He says in the full context “An absolute master class by @HeymanHustle on the schmuck @arielhelwani. I’ve watched this 10 times and loved seeing this Heelwani put into his place. Put my photo back up! Last time I’ll state this nicely Ariel”

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Helwani decides to fire back with a meme of a shocked man and captions it in the comments “Well well well look who decides to show …” This was followed by retweeting Cormier’s tweet and then saying “Guys I appreciate all your kind words of support following @dc_mma’s very mean tweet to me earlier today. Truth be told, I’m not mad at all. I’m actually just happy that his bosses finally let him tweet @ me again”

It’s Cormier’s turn now, he comes back at Helwani and says “Helwani you’ve worked yourself into a shoot, now I am coming to your studio but the visit won’t be a friendly one! Because you aren’t allowed in vegas I’m coming back to New York! What happened to the mensch I used to know. #disappointed Helwani fires back in the comment section saying “You wouldn’t dare. If you do though just do me a favor and leave Real Casual at home k” Helwani is referring to Cormier’s new co-host on ESPN Ryan Clark.

What did you make of this back and forth between Ariel Helwani and Daniel Cormier, is it a friendly one just in the disguise of a serious one? Or is their a bad blood you can sense? Both the MMA associated figures are doing good in their respective paths as they get media attention for the opinions they put forth, it would be interesting to see these 2 together at Helwani’s MMA Hour.

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