Didnt his fat ass cheat on the scale?
Itâs been almost two years since Daniel Cormier walked away from fighting, yet there are still some things that donât sit right with him.
The former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion is not 100 percent at peace with his two losses to heated rival Jon Jones. Both Cormier and Jones fought in light heavyweight championship bouts in 2015 and 2017 â they were two of the biggest fights of their era.
Jones bested Cormier in both bouts, but he also failed drug tests in the years of their rivalry â once in 2016 for estrogen blockers clomiphene and letrozole and the other for the steroid turinabol in 2017 in Jonesâ second win over Cormier, which was later overturned to a no contest due to the failed test.
Cormier feels he got the short end of the stick in those situations, despite abiding by the rules from the UFCâs anti-doping partner USADA. He recognizes Jones beat him, but he also wonders if things wouldâve been different if Jones wasnât allegedly on banned substances.
âHe beats me, gets suspended for the first time,â Cormier said on The Pivot Podcast. âNext time, steroids, failed. Next time, steroids, failed. Itâs like every time we fight, and you get suspended, if we go through the interaction, and you won the fight, that memory does not disappear.
âEven though they said itâs a no contest, (they) saw (me) lose. Itâs the truth. All he gets is time. Jon Jones even then was making probably $5 million. So Jon Jones, 2017, fights me in Anaheim, wins the fight, gets that âand new championâ from beating me. (Afterward) they find out he tests positive for steroids. They say, âOh man, heâs suspended for 18 months.â Now you get 18 months, (but) you still got your money. And youâre still only 25, 26 years old. Iâm 37, 38 years old. Youâre 27, and you get a year off. Itâs horrible, but itâs easy for him to say water under the bridge. But for me, itâs like, âMan, you did some stuff to my career that never let me settle, because now I donât know.'â
Accepting the outcome of the fights isnât issue for the former champ-champ. The part that sticks with Cormier the most is wondering what the fights would have looked like if Jones competed without testing issues.
âI could know through the fights that maybe this dude is just better than me,â Cormier said. âBut I also know that if youâre not doing the things that are boosting you, can you really work to the level that Iâm working? ⌠I canât let it go. Heâs a cheater.â Ultimately, Cormier thrived in MMA despite his shortcomings against Jones. He won UFC titles in two divisions before retiring, and recently entered the UFCâs Hall of Fame.
Cormier believes Jones didnât live up to his potential and he attributes a good chunk of it to the failed drug tests.
âHeâs got all these great instincts for fighting, but he just cannot allow himself to be as great as he is,â Cormier said. âThatâs the one thing about Israel Adesanya that I said: He is becoming everything that everybody thought Jon Jones was going to be, in terms of expanding the box of what a mixed martial arts fighter can be. Because Jones was gonna be the man. If he stayed clean, he wouldâve been the man, because people loved him. All athletes loved him and what he did.â
Exactly, isnt that fuckin richâŚ
This is a very fair point, although if comparing coming in a pound or two over vs PEDs, itâs pretty obvious which one is more severe.
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Cheating is cheating, you either play by the rules, or you cheat. And Daniel Cormier is an admitted cheater.
But you would get stripped of the title either way.
Then come back and fight him at HWâŚ
DC isnât wrong.
The first time they fought, Jones beat DC for five rounds at his own game. Second time he TKOâd him. DC has nothing for Jones, and Iâm a certified Jones hater.
Nope.
Just a hypocrite.
Iâll side with the guy who isnât a violent criminal wife beating coke head scumbag
By that logic speeding by a few mph is the same as killing someone. You either follow the laws or not.
Him getting taking down and embarrassed really did a number on him, then getting head kicked into next week. Yup all steroids.
Donât forget the drunk driving
damn
He needs to let it go. He had a fantastic career and he will undoubtedly have a much more successful after-fighting life than Jones will.
Jones will be broke, in prison, or dead soon after he retires.