Filed under: Bellator , News , Radio Highlight , UFC Daniel Cormier UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier said the exodus of two longtime American Kickboxing Academy fighters to Bellator MMA is, at the end of the day, just business. “It’s about making money, and I think these guys were getting more money there,” Cormier (16-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC), who next faces Alexander Gustafsson (16-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) at UFC 192, recently told MMAjunkie. Recently, multi-time title challengers Josh Thomson (20-8 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) and Josh Koscheck (17-10 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) made very public exits from the industry-leader and are expected to make their promotional debuts in September and December, respectively. For Koscheck, who now primarily trains out of his own gym in Fresno, Calif., his departure was accompanied by a series of interviews in which he was highly critical of the UFC, comparing being signed to the promotion with being in handcuffs . In particular, he singled out UFC President Dana White, whom he called a “ little errand b-tch .” Thomson, meanwhile, said he looked forward to a “fighter-friendly contract.” He echoed Cormier’s take that his departure was about compensation.