Daniel Cormier Denies Eric Trump UFC DMs, Says 2.5-Day Hack Drove Rigging Furor
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Updated · MMA Mania · Jun 17
Daniel Cormier Denies Eric Trump UFC DMs, Says 2.5-Day Hack Drove Rigging Furor
3 articles · Updated · MMA Mania · Jun 17
Summary
Daniel Cormier said on Wednesday that alleged direct messages with Eric Trump about “rigged” UFC Freedom 250 fights were fake and came from a hacked X account.
2.5 days of account trouble, Cormier said, kept him from regaining control quickly; he added he did not know about the post until arriving at the White House event around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
Cormier argued the screenshots made little sense because he and Trump do not follow each other on social media, and he said he would not post such claims before one of the biggest broadcast assignments of his career.
Sponsors—not UFC or the White House—have created the biggest fallout so far, Cormier said, while Eric Trump has also denied the messages were real.