NOVEMBER 3, 2018 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

Daniel Cormier's next heavyweight battle won't come against Brock Lesnar. UFC president Dana White affirmed to ESPN on Tuesday that Cormier will safeguard his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis at UFC 230 on Nov. 3. 

There's been a lot of discuss Cormier conceivably safeguarding his heavyweight title against Lesnar in 2019, however the two-division champion communicated a readiness to battle once again in 2018 in the wake of crushing Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 on July 7 and the organization apparently needed to improve one month from now's compensation per-see occasion at Madison Square Garden in New York.

 Lewis is falling off a dug out from a deficit, thump out prevail upon Alexander Volkov at UFC 229 this previous end of the week in Las Vegas. He's won nine of his last 10 battles going back to October 2015, with his solitary misfortune coming against Mark Hunt in June 2017. Cormier, who additionally holds the UFC light heavyweight title, turns 40 next March and has said he intends to resign around at that point. So it'll be intriguing to perceive what occurs if Cormier effectively protects his belt against Lewis. A lightweight battle between Nate Diaz and Dustin Poirier is planned to fill in as the co-headliner for UFC 230. Fortunes Rockhold likewise is planned to battle Chris Weidman in a middleweight conflict.