Daniel Cormier has named Cain Velasquez as the greatest heavyweight of all time if it weren’t for injuries.Cormier, a former two-division UFC champion, said Velasquez ‘could do it all’ in his heyday when explaining why his teammate was the very best, snubbing his longtime rival Jon Jones. Velasquez, a former two-time UFC heavyweight champion, knocked out some of the world’s baddest men during his 11-year spell in MMA’s premier promotionGettyVelasquez fought in the UFC for 11 years from 2008, winning 12 of his 15 bouts and claiming the undisputed heavyweight title twice.He finished Brock Lesnar in one round two years after his debut to capture the UFC heavyweight title for the first time. Although he dropped the belt to Junior Dos Santos in his next fight, Velasquez reclaimed it in a rematch the following year, before successfully defending it in two further title bouts.Daniel Cormier: ‘Cain Velasquez could do it all’“He was the best,” Cormier, 46, told UFC bantamweight Aljamain Sterling, speaking on his former training partner at American Kickboxing Academy in California.“I have never seen anything like it. I still haven’t seen anything like it today.“The training, the skill set, the ability. He really could do it all.“If he didn’t have all of those injuries, he would be by far the greatest heavyweight of all time. No one would have beaten him.”Velasquez was sidelined numerous times throughout his UFC career due to various injuries, especially in the prime of his career.Cormier explained that it was simply part of who Velasquez was, based on his extreme work ethic outside of the Octagon.“He was one of those kids who had nothing,” Cormier concluded.Former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Cormier said Velasquez had everything to be the greatest of all time in his division, but was let down by injuriesGETTY“He had so little, so when he would get mixed up with people, no matter what they told him to do, he would do it. “So, if the strength coach told him to leg press 800 pounds, he did it, he would leg press 800 pounds.“He was a monster, and he worked and he worked himself into injury after injury after injury.”Luke Rockhold picked Cain Velasquez as toughest sparring partner everFormer UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold trained and sparred with both Cormier and Velasquez.In a conversation with talkSPORT.com ahead of his defeat to Darren Till under the Misfits Boxing banner last month, Rockhold said Velasquez was ‘invincible’ at the peak of his powers, admitting he was his toughest sparring partner ever.“It’s no fun sparring Cain Velasquez, I’ll tell you that,” the 40-year-old explained.Rockhold trained with Velasquez at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, and said it was no fun whatsoever taking punches from his fellow AmericanGetty“In his heyday, there was nobody badder than Cain Velasquez. “Honestly, I’ve spent time sparring the best people in the world, and Cain was just, we all have moments, but Cain’s moment was invincible.“I’ve never seen anything like it.”Expanding on what it was like standing toe-to-toe with Velasquez, Rockhold, just like Cormier, said he had everything.“It’s not fun,” Rockhold added. “You have to have a plug ready to pull. “Cain’s good and all, but then you hit him in the face, and the motherf***** was 260 pounds, and he didn’t stop, and he had everything. “I could only hold him off for so long, but you know, it was good.”Where is Velasquez now?Velasquez, 43, is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for attempted murder.In March, Velasquez received a five-year prison sentence for attempted murderGettyIn 2022, during an 11-mile car chase, Velasquez fired a handgun multiple times at a truck carrying three people, including a man accused of molesting Velasquez’s relative