Daniel Cormier makes a strong case for Jon Jones | MMA News
In July, President Donald Trump revealed that half of next yr’s Independence Day celebration marking the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America, a UFC event can be held on the White House grounds.
Upon listening to the announcement, two-division champion Jon Jones rapidly ended his retirement in hopes of preventing at the historic event. Two weeks earlier, Jones relinquished the heavyweight championship and abruptly retired.
Despite Jones’ willingness to return next summer season against whoever holds the heavyweight title at the time, UFC CEO Dana White just lately said the chances of Jones being featured on the White House struggle card had been a ‘billion to one.’
Interestingly, former two-division champion and infamous rival of Jones, Daniel Cormier, believes the struggle promotion wants to have Jones compete that night time to guarantee a win for an American fighter.
“They’re talking about the White House, a White House fight card. Hey man, we’ve got to have some Americans win,” Cormier said during an look on Club Shay Shay.
“I don’t like Jon Jones. It’s not secret. The whole world knows that. I said, ‘Man, ya’ll better put Jon Jones on there because right now ain’t got one American in the Top 10 pound-for-pound (rankings).’ I said, ‘If ya’ll want an American dude to go get a victory, put Jon Jones in there because he’s going to win.’ That’s what he does.”
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Jones has re-entered the UFC anti-doping testing pool. He’s back in the fitness center training and responded to Dana White’s ‘billion to one’ remark.
“Despite the odds, I’m still training and optimistic about the possibility of being part of the White House event. At the end of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his call whether I compete that night or not. I do know Dana was really excited about the fight, and the door hasn’t been completely closed. That’s all a guy like me really needs,” Jones wrote on X.
“It sounds like another awesome goal to be inspired by. Sometimes in life, we’re not going to reach everything we set out to do and that’s okay. But I like my chances… after all, one in a billion is exactly what it took to end up as Jon ‘Bones’ Jones in the first place.”
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