{"id":10620,"date":"2025-07-21T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:20:14","slug":"jon-jones-sends-strange-messages-to-daniel-cormier-as-rivalry-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10620\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones sends strange messages to Daniel Cormier as rivalry continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC fighter Jon Jones has sent a series of strange messages to Daniel Cormier as their rivalry heats up once again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jon-Jones-Daniel-Cormier-1-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jon Jones Daniel Cormier\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, Jon Jones really enjoys winding people up on social media. He also enjoys teasing the mixed martial arts fanbase, whether it be about taking on Tom Aspinall (finally) or breaking his short-lived retirement. Whatever the case may be, \u2018Bones\u2019 spends more time typing than he does competing these days.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/daniel-cormier\/daniel-cormier-gives-his-thoughts-on-why-ufc-agreed-to-let-jon-jones-fight-stipe-miocic-instead-of-tom-aspinall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Cormier gives his thoughts on why UFC agreed to let Jon Jones fight Stipe Miocic instead of Tom Aspinall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, it feels like tensions have started to rise once again between Jones and Daniel Cormier. As we know, the two men shared one of the greatest rivalries in MMA history, with one win for Jon and one no contest.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1947016277014548927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent response<\/a> to some comments made by Cormier, Jones went in hard on the former two-weight world champion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jon Jones believes he\u2019ll always be in Daniel Cormier\u2019s head <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M7eM44Y9nr\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/M7eM44Y9nr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpB9TN1h7N\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qpB9TN1h7N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1947016277014548927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter Jon Jones has sent a series of strange messages to Daniel Cormier as their rivalry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-10620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}