{"id":401309,"date":"2026-01-09T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401309\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:24:12","slug":"former-ufc-champ-warns-daniel-cormier-about-potential-wrestling-match-with-jon-jones-not-that-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401309\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC champ warns Daniel Cormier about potential wrestling match with Jon Jones: &#8216;Not that simple&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman doesn\u2019t buy Daniel Cormier\u2019s recent prediction about a potential wrestling match with Jon Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones reunited on the set of ALF Reality 3, a Russian MMA reality television series filmed in Thailand. Cormier and Jones competed opposite each other as coaches on the upcoming season of the show.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cormier and Jones, tensions remain high between the two-time UFC rivals. Jones went as far as labeling Cormier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-explodes-daniel-cormier-first-comments-reality-tv-show-filming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a \u2018d\u2014head\u2019 who mistreated his fighters<\/a> and fellow coaches during the show.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier has entertained the possibility of clashing with Jones in a wrestling match under the Real American Freestyle promotional banner. The former two-division champion promised he would \u201910-0\u2032 Jones if they met on the mats.<\/p>\n<p>But a former UFC champion believes Cormier shouldn\u2019t bite off more than he can chew.<\/p>\n<p>Kamaru Usman: \u2018Jon is no slouch\u2019 in wrestling the likes of Daniel Cormier<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OMPfInNBLhQ?si=WHA7RRnT4p5-s171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pound 4 Pound<\/a> podcast, Kamaru Usman warned Cormier not to get too confident in his chances in a potential wrestling match against Jones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that simple,\u201d Usman said of Cormier\u2019s chances against Jones in a wrestling match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think because Jon Jones never went to Division I, and had accolades and all of that, people sleep on just how talented Jon Jones is. I\u2019ve watched Jon Jones decide, \u2018I\u2019m gonna wrestle,\u2019 and when he decided to wrestle, he made people look bad. This man is just a freak athletic talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDC and Jones fought. I understand that\u2019s just fighting, that\u2019s MMA but when it came down to that wrestling exchange,\u201d Usman continued. \u201cJon is no slouch. This ain\u2019t going to be just that easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Cormier could potentially compete in either a boxing match or a wrestling competition in the near future. In the meantime, ALF Reality 3 will likely get a wide-ranging viewing audience as they watch Jones and Cormier\u2019s reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman doesn\u2019t buy Daniel Cormier\u2019s recent prediction about a potential wrestling match with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,797,786,11877,61175,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-401309","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-kamaru-usman","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401309","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=401309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}