MELBOURNE, Australia – UFC President Dana White has a three-fight plan for Daniel Cormier that he thinks would be the perfect way for the UFC champ to wrap up his career.

Cormier (22-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) has been targeting retirement at age 40 for some time. He originally said it was a hard out for hanging up his gloves, but with the clock ticking until his birthday on March 20, all signs point to “DC” extending his plans.

White said he doesn’t think Cormier necessarily has a firm plan, though. He believes there are multiple more fights on the horizon.

“I don’t think he has a timeline (for retirement),” White told MMAjunkie. “‘DC’ is hurt. He was talking about retirement. You know me, I’m the first guy to say when someone needs to retire. That guy doesn’t need to retire, he’s the man. I think he’s probably got three fights left in him.”

Ever since Cormier had his in-cage confrontation with Brock Lesnar (5-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) at UFC 226 in July, a matchup with the former UFC and current WWE champion has been the top target for Cormier’s next fight. As time has gone on, though, the bout has seemed less likely to materialize, despite White stating that’s not the case.

Cormier made a successful pitstop at UFC 230 in November when he defended his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis. Since then, speculation has run rampant about a trilogy fight with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones (23-1 MMA, 17-1 UFC).

Of late, though, Cormier has engaged in social media warfare with Stipe Miocic (18-3 MMA, 12-3 UFC), who he took the heavyweight belt from at UFC 226. Miocic has demanded a rematch, but Cormier called him “entitled” and said he’s not keen to participate in it.

Miocic fits into White’s plan to usher Cormier out of the sport, though, and the UFC boss would like to see that rematch along with fights against Lesnar and Jones.

In a perfect world, which we know this isn’t a perfect world, I think you see Brock, I think you see Stipe and hopefully Jon Jones,” White said. “Those are his three and he’ll go out with a bang man, then he’ll probably retire.”

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