Daniel Cormier to Jon Jones: 'You either | MMA News
Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones just lately relinquished his heavyweight championship and introduced his retirement. Two weeks later, after President Donald Trump introduced that a UFC occasion on the White House grounds was being deliberate for next 12 months, Jones re-entered the anti-doping testing pool to “keep everyone’s options open.”
When Jones posted on social media that he had re-entered the testing pool, rival and fellow two-division UFC titleholder Daniel Cormier thought Jones was trolling.
“I figured he was trolling. I thought he was trolling. I thought he was messing with the fans. Kind of giving them a hard time because he knew how much they wanted him to fight Tom Aspinall,” Cormier mentioned on his 3 Rounds podcast. “But then he didn’t, and he says, ‘You know what? This doesn’t mean enough to me. I’m done.’ My biggest issue is, why are you playing with people’s emotions? It seems like something he’s been doing quite a bit lately.”
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Jones has basically left everybody guessing whether or not a return is in the playing cards. At the time UFC CEO Dana White introduced Jones knowledgeable the UFC that he is retired, the struggle promotion was working to e-book a title unification bout between Jones and then-interim titleholder Tom Aspinall. If Jones determined to struggle again, Cormier believes it needs to be against the newly elevated undisputed titleholder.
“If he decides he wants to fight, sure. I don’t think he has to have an option but to fight that guy (Aspinall), though. He said it’s good to be the hunter now and not the hunted. I don’t think it changes anything. You’re still the champion. Right? You walked away with the belt. Don’t keep rolling around and playing with our emotions and the fans’ emotions because you know they want to see you fight. So, you either fight, or you hit the door.”
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