{"id":390035,"date":"2026-01-04T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390035\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:01:08","slug":"today-in-mma-history-jon-jones-gives-daniel-cormier-first-loss-at-ufc-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390035\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in MMA History: Jon Jones gives Daniel Cormier first loss at UFC 182"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday marks the 11-year anniversary of one of the most important main events in UFC history \u2013\u00a0and also the anniversary of a fight card that was rife with all kinds of issues.<\/p>\n

Then-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones headlined UFC 182 against arch rival Daniel Cormier. The buildup to their first fight included a press conference faceoff stage shove and melee<\/a>\u00a0months earlier, ahead of when the two originally were supposed to meet at UFC 178.<\/p>\n

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And a few weeks before the fight, Jones was flagged for a drug test failure for cocaine<\/a> \u2013 though he served no suspension because it was out of competition, and the test failure wasn’t announced until three days after his unanimous decision win<\/a> over Cormier.<\/p>\n

The card itself, in the lead-up to the main event, featured seven decisions in the first 10 fights. When the headliner went 25 minutes, the event wound up the third longest total in-cage fight time in UFC history at the time.<\/p>\n

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The finishes all came on the prelims in the form of knockouts from Shawn Jordan (vs. Jared Cannonier), Cody Garbrandt (vs. Marcus Brimage) and Paul Felder in a short-notice fight against Danny Castillo. Felder and Jordan won bonuses, as did Jones and Cormier.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Today in MMA History: Jon Jones gives Daniel Cormier first UFC loss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday marks the 11-year anniversary of one of the most important main events in UFC history \u2013\u00a0and also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,797,786,11877,208894,785,208893,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-390035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-cormier","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-jon-jones","13":"tag-jones-and-cormier","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-shawn-jordan","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390035","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=390035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}