It’s on…
You wouldn’t have too many people questioning you if you said that Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier is the greatest rivalry the UFC has ever seen.
Jones has won both fights between the two fighters and when the pair faced off recently the knockout was absolutely brutal.
"Jon Jones is back!" 🏆
WOOOOOOW! 😱@JonnyBones gets his belt back in truly devastating fashion!!! #UFC214 pic.twitter.com/ddHCadnV6R
— UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) July 30, 2017
Daniel Cormier has remained tight lipped since that night a couple of weeks ago but broke his silence on the latest episode of the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani.
When asked on the show if he would fight again Cormier answered that he will definitely fight again and it will probably be with Jon Jones:
“Not only am I going to fight again but I believe that Jon Jones and I will fight again. I have a desire to fight and I believe that him and I will compete again before it’s all said and done,” the 38-year-old told Helwani.
“I don’t know exactly what path leads back to a fight with Jones but I anticipate that he will be the champion and I don’t believe that anyone else in this division can compete with me so after I win enough fights I believe we will fight again.
“Also, we make money together and when you make money together the UFC is usually pretty open to making those matches.”
Much criticism came in for Joe Rogan after he interviewed a clearly emotional and probably concussed Daniel Cormier after the TKO loss and the fighter said there are no ill feeling towards him or John McCarthy for not stopping the fight sooner.
“I don’t hold any ill will towards him, I think he was doing his job. I don’t hold any ill will towards John McCarthy as he gave me plenty of opportunities to stay in this fight.
“The Joe Rogan interview, I don’t even know what happened. I still haven’t seen it.
“I’ll be honest with you, I’m still missing time. I don’t remember any of that, I don’t remember leaving the octagon, I don’t remember some of these photos where I was crying and I was like hugging Bob (Cook). I don’t remember any of that.”
The rivalry between the two is among the most heated in combat sports history and although Jon Jones has made it clear that he would like to bury the hatchet, Cormier didn’t quite have the same willingness to share the love.
“I haven’t really paid much attention to it; I’ve been really focusing on myself and my family,” the 19-2 fighter said.
“I don’t know what’s going to become of Jon Jones or what happens in the future but for me personally I just kind of want to live my life.
“I’m not going to go to really address anything that happened between him and I right now it’s a mute point but to think that all the bad things that have been said and the negative comments towards each other could just be completely gone would be unrealistic but in terms of co existing in this sport, we have to. How can I not see or be around Jon Jones when my jobs are so closely tied to the UFC and in that sense, I will be a professional but outside of that I don’t really know.”
