It’s finally going to happen this week, the eagerly awaited return of Jon Jones after being away from the sport for over one year. As Jones makes his way back into the Octagon, his first encounter will be against Ovince St. Preux which is set to happen Saturday night in Las Vegas and the two will be fighting it out for the light heavyweight interim title. However, the real focus premised around Jones’ return is not his bout against Ovince St. Preux but instead, all eyes are on whether or not Jones will be scheduled to fight against his arch nemesis Daniel Cormier (the current UCF champion) once again.
Daniel Cormier had to pull out from his fight against Jones as he had sustained an injury prior to the main title fight. Jones, who at the time was in Bristol, said some things about Cormier in an interview that questioned Cormier’s lack of sportsmanship among other things. Jones reiterated that Cormier was a fighter that had lost to him in the past, and rather than just accept the fact that Jones was the better fighter and still is the better fighter, Cormier had come up with a bunch of excuses. Jones carried on mocking Cormier when he listed the excuses Cormier had provided such as, I lost because I am not used to this weight class, it was my first time fighting this weight class, I lost because it was a big fight and I was nervous, I lost since I was not able to train with my preferred training partner Cain Velasquez, etc.
Jones went on to tell Hannah Storm that all of the excuses that Cormier made up basically proved that Cormier was basically convincing his own self that there were reasons why he could not beat Jones which had nothing to do with the reality of the matter which is that he just is not as good as fighter as Jones is.
When Jones was asked specifically if he would like to fight Cormier in Madison Square Garden, he said he would like nothing more but he was quite positive that Cormier would never sign up for something like that since he was scared and would not want to take on Jones, especially not in Jones’ backyard.
Jones also was suspicious in the interview about Cormier’s injury, saying he was hurt, not injured and being hurt is part and parcel of being an elite athlete and you should fight through it.

It’s finally going to happen this week, the eagerly awaited return of Jon Jones after being away from the sport for over one year. As Jones makes his way back into the Octagon, his first encounter will be against Ovince St. Preux which is set to happen Saturday night in Las Vegas and the two will be fighting it out for the light heavyweight interim title. However, the real focus premised around Jones’ return is not his bout against Ovince St. Preux but instead, all eyes are on whether or not Jones will be scheduled to fight against his arch nemesis Daniel Cormier (the current UCF champion) once again.
Daniel Cormier had to pull out from his fight against Jones as he had sustained an injury prior to the main title fight. Jones, who at the time was in Bristol, said some things about Cormier in an interview that questioned Cormier’s lack of sportsmanship among other things. Jones reiterated that Cormier was a fighter that had lost to him in the past, and rather than just accept the fact that Jones was the better fighter and still is the better fighter, Cormier had come up with a bunch of excuses. Jones carried on mocking Cormier when he listed the excuses Cormier had provided such as, I lost because I am not used to this weight class, it was my first time fighting this weight class, I lost because it was a big fight and I was nervous, I lost since I was not able to train with my preferred training partner Cain Velasquez, etc.
Jones went on to tell Hannah Storm that all of the excuses that Cormier made up basically proved that Cormier was basically convincing his own self that there were reasons why he could not beat Jones which had nothing to do with the reality of the matter which is that he just is not as good as fighter as Jones is.
When Jones was asked specifically if he would like to fight Cormier in Madison Square Garden, he said he would like nothing more but he was quite positive that Cormier would never sign up for something like that since he was scared and would not want to take on Jones, especially not in Jones’ backyard.
Jones also was suspicious in the interview about Cormier’s injury, saying he was hurt, not injured and being hurt is part and parcel of being an elite athlete and you should fight through it.