<div class="Article" style="float: left;">
<table>
<tr style="vertical-align: bottom;">
<td>
<h3><a href="/go=news.detail&gid=451726" target="_blank">
Cormier: It's about the title, not beating Jones
</a></h3>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href="/go=news.detail&gid=451726" ><img class="photo" src="http://img.mixedmartialarts.com/method=get&rs=33&q=75&x=16&y=11&w=310&h=165&ro=0&s=daniel-cormier.jpg" /></a>
<div style="clear: both; line-height: 1px;height: 1px;"> </div>
</div>
<p>Due to unfortunate circumstances for Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier will get another shot at the UFC light heavyweight title, and for the former Olympian believes that the title is the most important thing, not avenging a loss to Jones:</p>
On Tuesday night, Cormier found himself back in a title fight.
He is beyond grateful for another golden opportunity and the fact that his fight is against Johnson and not Jones does little to diminish what winning the title would mean to the 36-year-old fighter.
For him, "it's always been about the belt."
"Even in the lead up to Jon and I's fight, I said if Jon Jones didn't have the belt, I wouldn't care about fighting Jon Jones so much," Cormier explained. "It's always been about the belt. It won't mean any less not winning it off Jones. Competitively, I know that I didn't beat him. Competitively, I will hope that he gets everything in order, comes back and is the same guy when he left and we get the chance to fight again."
It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
The belt comes with a lot more money in Mma, so it is silly to have a fuck the belt mentality.
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
I think that his logic is that "I can only fight the people who are available". Jon Jones isn't his white whale, he wants to be champion.
It's why Lawler isn't complaining about GSP being gone, you strive to be the Champion and can only beat the people that stand between you and that goal.
Submissable - It's should never be about the belt completely. It's about being the best. This mentality is what delayed May vs Paq and many other fights. Do you wanna know how good you are? Do you want to know how you stack up against your equal? If you can dig for that little extra to beat someone with more skill than you? Fuck the belt. The belt goes on your mantel to look at. What do you see in the mirror?
I think that his logic is that "I can only fight the people who are available". Jon Jones isn't his white whale, he wants to be champion.
It's why Lawler isn't complaining about GSP being gone, you strive to be the Champion and can only beat the people that stand between you and that goal.