Time has not cooled the tension between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones. Jones, former light heavyweight champion and alleged domestic abuser, took to Twitter to deride UFC heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou’s winning performance at UFC 270. For Daniel Cormier, a former two-division champ himself and a longtime rival of Jones’, this was yet another step too far from an inactive fighter.
On his ESPN show “DC & RC”, Cormier simply said that Jon Jones needs to stop Tweeting and start fighting. “For me, it’s about Jon Jones needs to fight. At some point, you got to fight. You got to fight.
DC Blasts Jon Jones For Ngannou Criticism
It’s one thing to be the champion, defending, fighting – even when him and I were going through our thing, he would get suspended, but then he would come back and he would fight. Even if that meant fighting Ovince Saint Preux whenever I was hurt, but ultimately he was fighting.
Right now, he’s just talking. It’s like, when are you going to fight? Because for as bad as it was, Francis had a torn meniscus. Francis was hurt. Francis had a bad training camp. All these things. Francis still fought.”
Jon Jones has not set foot in the Octagon in almost two years. He claimed that he was chasing a move up to the heavyweight division, but he still has yet to return to competition. While bulking up from 205 pounds to 265, he has been involved in repeated controversies and legal battles, and it’s unclear if he will ever fight again.
Jones, at one point, was chasing a fight with Francis Ngannou. Ngannou’s continued activity despite behind-the-scenes friction with the UFC, says Daniel Cormier, speaks volumes in comparison to Jones’ inactivity. “So you can say, ‘Well, they’re not that good,’ but ultimately, they’re still in there doing their thing.
Why aren’t you in there doing your thing? You are one of the most talented mixed martial artists of all time. Why aren’t you in there doing your thing against these guys, opposed to judging them, because for all of the bad blood and all the bad stuff between Francis and the UFC right now, Francis still went out there.
He went out there, he fought hurt, and he got a victory.” Cormier went on to say that Ngannou fought with a wounded knee, and Jon Jones ought to be careful in taunting an “apex predator”.
“So if you’re going to judge the apex predator that Francis is on last weekend, know that you’re judging a wounded apex predator.
So you may think that he’s not as good now because of what you saw, but maybe you’re just putting yourself up for a bigger disappointment when you do finally make that jump. ”What do you think of DC’s latest feud with Jon Jones? Let us know in the comments.
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