Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier have vicious off-air exchange before ESPN interview

Not long after UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier collided in a UFC 178 media day melee on Monday, the two rivals appeared on ESPN’s SportsCenter. But the beef continued well after the cameras were off, and now footage has …

Not long after UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier collided in a UFC 178 media day melee on Monday, the two rivals appeared on ESPN’s SportsCenter. But the beef continued well after the cameras were off, and now footage has surfaced of Jones and Cormier trading heated words. A transcription of the conversation can be seen below:

JJ: “Hey pu**y, are you still there?”

DC: “I’m here, I’m here. You are just the fakest person. I actually admire that you can actually be this fake, and like, when the TV comes on, how you can just change. It’s like you’re a chameleon. It’s awesome.”

JJ: “Hey, listen. I’m a professional. That fact that you’re a pu**y —

DC: “It’s unbelievable. It’s unbelievable.”

JJ: “The fact that…