UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and former title holder Jon Jones have formed quite the rivalry. Now Cormier has come forward with new remarks concerning his former opponent.
Jon Jones is the only fighter to ever defeat Daniel Cormier. That being said, Jones has also been stripped of his UFC title a record setting total of three times and has been flagged for three different drug test failures throughout his career.
Consequently, there has been some contention between Cormier and Jones over the years. Speaking at a UFC 226 media teleconference, Daniel Cormier recently decided to offer his thoughts on the fighter.
“I think at this point, when a guy has been as inactive as Jones, He ties himself to certain individuals tries to keep himself in the — he tries to keep himself relevant. And it’s easy to talk trash to me because people always ask me questions. We’re getting on the conference call with Stipe and I’m fighting next week and the first question is about Jon Jones. So then I answer the question, and he obviously sees my answer to the question, and so that gives him opportunity to kind of put himself back into relevancy.”
“It’s kind of what he does. Before our very first fight, there were some direct messages sent, and he called me, he said he was my daddy or some shit like that, right? And he, somebody told him something in reference to my father being murdered, and he had Dana call me on three-way to apologize for saying anything like, ‘I’m your daddy’ or something like that.”
“Every time we start to argue he goes back to ‘I’m your daddy,’ So he didn’t mean to apologize. He knows exactly what he’s doing. So there’s deeper meaning when he says ‘who’s your daddy?’ There’s deeper meaning because of the history and of him going through that unnecessary step of having Dana call me on the phone so he can personally apologize for saying anything about my father, when then he kind of goes right back to it any time we start to argue.”
“Any time a guy does performance-enhancing drugs and on multiple occasions, they eliminate themselves. So as great as Anderson Silva was, he tested positive two times, Jones has tested positive two or three times. Those guys eliminate themselves. I want to be mentioned among the greats, the Georges St-Pierres and Demetrious Johnsons and the guys who have done things the correct way over the course of entire career, without that asterisk.”
“Regardless of what I do, it is always a part of my story. Stipe Miocic, I know he won’t test positive for anything. There will be no sex pill excuse, there will be no issues. He’s going come, he’s going to fight clean, and he’s going to fight hard. That’s what I want the focus to be. I don’t want to worry about a guy who is notorious for trying to screw me, himself, his family and everyone else. You guys can worry about him, you know? It’s crazy that a person who is so self-destructive can be held in such high regard in the sport. It’s sad.”
