Daniel Cormier envisions a world where he and Jon Jones meet one more time, but this time it\u2019s on the wrestling mats.<\/p>\n
Cormier and Jones have one of the most storied rivalries in MMA history. For years, the two exchanged insults and heated words in the media, and twice fought each other in the UFC, with Jones winning both bouts, though the second was overturned to a no-contest after Jones tested positive for a banned substance. And now, Cormier is hoping for some get back in the near future.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Cormier told fellow Olympian Ben Askren that he believes he and Jones will face off in the new wrestling league, Real American Freestyle, in the near future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m telling you, Real American Freestyle is going to see me and Jon Jones at some point, and I\u2019m going to kick his ass like you would never believe,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cBecause guess what, I still shoot. I still train wrestlers every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rivalry between Cormier and Jones dates back to before either were household names.<\/p>\n
The two first met at UFC 121, before Jones was light heavyweight champion or Cormier was even in the UFC, and Jones joked with Cormier that he could take the two-time Olympic wrestler down. That did not sit well with the Cormier, kicking off a decade of back-and-forth between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier envisions a world where he and Jon Jones meet one more time, but this time it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-394345","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-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394345","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=394345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}