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Cormier submits Johnson in 3rd, wins vacant title at UFC 187

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Daniel Cormier beat Anthony "Rumble" Johnson with a rear naked choke in the third round, dominating on the ground to win the vacant light heavyweight title at UFC 187 on Saturday night. Cormier (16-1) controlled Johnson throughout the final two rounds to claim the title stripped from Jon Jones, who was suspended indefinitely by the UFC last month after his arrest when police said he left the scene of a car accident. Chris Weidman also defended his middleweight title at the MGM Grand Garden in the UFC's hometown, stopping Vitor Belfort in the first round with a relentless series of punches on the ground. Weidman (13-0) survived an early scare from Belfort and quickly took control of his third title defense, taking down Belfort and battering his head against the canvas until referee Herb Dean stopped the bout with 2:07 left. Weidman walked around the cage with an American flag on his back, celebrating his latest dominant victory. The former light heavyweight champion won three fights with spectacular head-kick knockouts in 2013, but his late-career resurgence was colored by his enthusiastic embrace of testosterone replacement therapy, a medical loophole that allowed several UFC fighters to legally compete on steroids until the Nevada Athletic Commission and the UFC eliminated it last year. Arlovski and Browne are friends outside the cage, and they put on a spectacular show earlier on the pay-per-view card, with both heavyweights badly hurting each other in less than five minutes of frenetic action.

 

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