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Jon Jones: “I Would Prefer Any Other Referee But [“Big” John McCarthy]” For UFC 200

As noted, when the referees and judges were announced for the UFC 200 main event between Jon Jones and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier, the Jones camp filed a formal protest of the selection of veteran referee “Big” John McCarthy being given the assignment.

On Tuesday, “Bones” Jones commented on the matter personally.

“I would prefer any other referee but him,” said Jones.

The former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion would go on to elaborate on his concerns regarding McCarthy as the referee for his rematch against D.C.

“It’s been a mixture of many things throughout the years,” Jones said. “Just the energy. I don’t feel like we have the best energy. It’s an accumulation of some of the things that happened during some fights and just personal interactions. I just don’t feel as, you don’t need anything stacking up against you when you’re fighting a guy a great fighter like DC.”

As Jones continued, he explained his belief that if he were in McCarthy’s shoes and knew a fighter didn’t want him officiating his bout, he would voluntarily remove himself from contention.

“He [officiates] probably once a week somewhere,” Jones said. “For me, this is my life, this is my story, this is my legacy. This is everything to me, and if I don’t agree with his energy that he brings to the fight, if I was him, I wouldn’t want to be a part of it. You know what I mean? If you’re not welcome, why would you even want to be part of someone’s big night who doesn’t want you there. I would say, ‘you know, I’ll back out of this one, I don’t need to be a part of this one.'”

Jon Jones fights Daniel Cormier in a rematch for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship in the main event of UFC 200 on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

H/T to MMAFighting.com for the above Jon Jones quotes.

On Tuesday, “Bones” Jones commented on the matter personally.

“I would prefer any other referee but him,” said Jones.

The former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion would go on to elaborate on his concerns regarding McCarthy as the referee for his rematch against D.C.

“It’s been a mixture of many things throughout the years,” Jones said. “Just the energy. I don’t feel like we have the best energy. It’s an accumulation of some of the things that happened during some fights and just personal interactions. I just don’t feel as, you don’t need anything stacking up against you when you’re fighting a guy a great fighter like DC.”

As Jones continued, he explained his belief that if he were in McCarthy’s shoes and knew a fighter didn’t want him officiating his bout, he would voluntarily remove himself from contention.

“He [officiates] probably once a week somewhere,” Jones said. “For me, this is my life, this is my story, this is my legacy. This is everything to me, and if I don’t agree with his energy that he brings to the fight, if I was him, I wouldn’t want to be a part of it. You know what I mean? If you’re not welcome, why would you even want to be part of someone’s big night who doesn’t want you there. I would say, ‘you know, I’ll back out of this one, I don’t need to be a part of this one.'”

Jon Jones fights Daniel Cormier in a rematch for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship in the main event of UFC 200 on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

H/T to MMAFighting.com for the above Jon Jones quotes.

Daniel Cormier Takes Us Through His UFC 192 Fight Vs. Alexander Gustafsson

In this special edition of “My Fight,” UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier takes us through his journey ahead of UFC 192, when he defended his title against Alexander Gustafsson.

Cormier will get the chance to avenge his lone career loss n…

In this special edition of “My Fight,” UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier takes us through his journey ahead of UFC 192, when he defended his title against Alexander Gustafsson.

Cormier will get the chance to avenge his lone career loss next month at UFC 200 when he meets Jon Jones to unify the titles.

Video: Cain Velasquez On “Full Blast” For First Cormier vs. Jones Fight

https://youtu.be/Grvep9n8rJ8

UFC released the above video on Monday afternoon, as former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez was on “Full Blast” for the first meeting between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones.

Ahead of their second meeting in the …

https://youtu.be/Grvep9n8rJ8

UFC released the above video on Monday afternoon, as former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez was on “Full Blast” for the first meeting between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones.

Ahead of their second meeting in the main event of UFC 200, which Velasquez is also scheduled for in a heavyweight bout against Travis Browne, Cormier and Jones 1 is relived through the eyes and sounds of the former UFC heavyweight king.

Featured above is “UFC 200: Cain Velasquez – Full Blast Jones vs Cormier,” which features Velasquez mic’d up for the first Cormier-Jones fight. Hear what Velasquez had to say during the fight by watching the above video.

Headlined by Cormier-Jones 2 and featuring the UFC return of Brock Lesnar, as well as perhaps the most stacked single UFC fight card in history, UFC 200 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 pay-per-view!

Video: UFC 200 Celebrity Tales: Daniel Cormier’s ‘A Forehead Too Far’

https://youtu.be/8PX74qQoZxk

Heading into UFC 200, there has been a lot of unique promotion for what is expected to be among UFC’s biggest events in company history. On Monday, another unique form of promotion surfaced.

Featured above is a new video that UFC published on their official YouTube channel on Monday called, “UFC 200 Celebrity Tales: Daniel Cormier’s ‘A Forehead Too Far,'” which features current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier telling his side of the story regarding the infamous media day brawl between he and Jon Jones leading into their first fight in 2015.

The official description for the animated UFC 200 Celebrity Tales video, which you can watch above, reads as follows:

“With UFC 200 coming up, it’s time to revisit one of the biggest rivalries the UFC has to offer…Daniel Cormier vs Jon Jones. This, of course, is not the first time they’ll challenge each other for the belt. Lucky for us, The Chive caught up with Cormier to discuss one of the more memorable meetings they had outside of the Octagon. The story was so good that The Chive decided to animate the whole thing. Enjoy, and make sure to catch the real fight on Saturday, July 9th on Pay-Per-View.”

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 pay-per-view!

https://youtu.be/8PX74qQoZxk

Heading into UFC 200, there has been a lot of unique promotion for what is expected to be among UFC’s biggest events in company history. On Monday, another unique form of promotion surfaced.

The official description for the animated UFC 200 Celebrity Tales video, which you can watch above, reads as follows:

“With UFC 200 coming up, it’s time to revisit one of the biggest rivalries the UFC has to offer…Daniel Cormier vs Jon Jones. This, of course, is not the first time they’ll challenge each other for the belt. Lucky for us, The Chive caught up with Cormier to discuss one of the more memorable meetings they had outside of the Octagon. The story was so good that The Chive decided to animate the whole thing. Enjoy, and make sure to catch the real fight on Saturday, July 9th on Pay-Per-View.”

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 pay-per-view!

Jon Jones Reveals His Biggest Rival, And It’s Not Daniel Cormier

The UFC light heavyweight title that Daniel Cormier wears strapped across his waist will be on the line, when he meets his longtime rival Jon Jones in the main even of UFC 200 this July. Jones has been the biggest hurdle in the former Olympian’s mixed martial arts (MMA) career, as the only blemish on

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The UFC light heavyweight title that Daniel Cormier wears strapped across his waist will be on the line, when he meets his longtime rival Jon Jones in the main even of UFC 200 this July.

Jones has been the biggest hurdle in the former Olympian’s mixed martial arts (MMA) career, as the only blemish on his record comes at the hands of ‘Bones’ following their initial meeting at UFC 182.

While the two men obviously have a tendency to get under one another’s skin, the former 205-pound king Jones recently reveled to FOX Sports that ‘DC’ actually isn’t the biggest rival he’s come across throughout his impressive career:

“I think the performance I’m most happy with is when I beat Rashad Evans,” Jones said. “Rashad Evans was a guy who knew me personally, trained with me, and I think he was 15-1 when we fought.

He had only ever lost to Lyoto Machida. He was a winner. He knocked out Chuck Liddell. He was just a bad ass. I loved that I made that fight look one-sided — that’s the fight I’m most proud of.

That rivalry was almost equal to Daniel Cormier, actually a bit more personal. The beef was more real. Daniel Cormier, our beef is childish.”

Jones also claimed that Cormier isn’t even the toughest fight he’s had in his eight-year UFC career, but rather the man who took him into deep waters at UFC 165, Alexander Gustafsson:

“When it comes to my actual toughest fight, it was Alexander Gustafsson. Gustafsson dazed me at one point in the fight. He had me bleeding, he actually made me go to the hospital after the fight,” Jones said.

“Daniel Cormier, his fight to me was no tougher than the Glover Teixeira fight. First three rounds were competitive, and then after that I ran away with the victory.

Daniel, he really isn’t my biggest challenge, or I don’t think he’ll be my threat anyway. He’s just part of the journey,” Jones said. “I’m excited to out there and beat him again. Get rid of him once and for all.”

Jones and Cormier are set to square off in the main event of UFC 200 live on pay-per-view (PPV), in the T-Mobile Arena on July 9, 2016.

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Video: Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson From UFC 187 (Full Fight)

Daniel Cormier’s first real MMA title came last year, as he submitted Anthony Johnson to become UFC light heavyweight champion.

Cormier had previously won the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, which was sort of a way to crown a new champion in tha…

Daniel Cormier’s first real MMA title came last year, as he submitted Anthony Johnson to become UFC light heavyweight champion.

Cormier had previously won the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, which was sort of a way to crown a new champion in that promotion before Zuffa purchased it.

Regardless of that, check out a complete fight replay of that bout between Cormier and Johnson from UFC 187 in the video below: