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For a little while, Daniel Cormier kept it together. After the first and so far only loss of his professional mixed martial arts career, he made it all the way backstage without letting his emotions overwhelm him. Then he broke down. In the age of ubiquitous cell-phone cameras and social media, even that moment was captured and shared with the masses, as Cormier cried in the arms of a teammate just moments after coming up short in his first bid for the UFC light heavyweight title. For the former Olympic wrestler Cormier (16-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC), who faces Alexander Gustafsson (16-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) in a headlining title bout at UFC 192 in Houston on Saturday (10 p.m. ET, pay-per-view), it was a raw moment of disappointment and despair. It was also only the beginning of the hurting and the healing process, according to Cormier. Jon Jones Jon Jones “I had to just let it burn,” Cormier tells USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie. “Something like that, you can’t get over it fast. I had to let it feel as bad as it needed to, because I had built my entire career to that moment, and then I didn’t get it done.” That was in January, when Cormier lost a unanimous decision to then-champion Jon Jones at UFC 182. But after Jones was stripped of the title following a hit-and-run accident in Albuquerque that resulted in felony charges, Cormier was tapped as his replacement against top contender Anthony Johnson in a bout for the vacant UFC title in May.