Daniel Cormier missed out on a massive payday because Jon Jones wasn\u2019t interested. Or at least, that\u2019s what Cormier says.<\/p>\n
Cormier and Jones have one of the most heated rivalries in UFC history. Though Jones won both of their fights (the second was later overturned to a no-contest after Jones tested positive for a banned substance), the rivalry was one of the defining matchups of the UFC in the 2010s, so much so that even a decade later, both men are still cashing in on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing with Jon Jones: it wouldn\u2019t be RAF, because they can\u2019t afford to pay it,\u201d Cormier said in a Q&A session posted to his YouTube channel<\/a>. \u201cBut there\u2019s an organization that offered us both seven figures for a six-minute match. He will not do it. I\u2019m telling you, he will not do it. I\u2019m not lying. I went through the negotiations, and I said, \u2018If he wrestles me, I\u2019ll do it. But it\u2019s going to be 10-0. I\u2019m going to tech him.\u2019 But unfortunately, he knows it\u2019s going to be 10-0, so he won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Cormier added that when the wrestling match was shot down, he tried to pivot to a grappling match with Jones, but was again rebuffed.<\/p>\n \u201cSo then I said, \u2018How about we do a grappling match?\u2019\u201d Cormier said. \u201cHe said no, only submissions. I said, \u2018Why don\u2019t we do points, right, where we win? I don\u2019t want to be tied at the end.\u2019 \u2018No points, only submissions.\u2019 So he won\u2019t do it. He won\u2019t compete with me in anything he thinks there\u2019s a chance that he\u2019d lose in. So, give up on the Jon Jones thing. He\u2019s not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones past few years have been puzzling as, after defeating Stipe Miocic in their heavyweight title fight at UFC 309, \u201cBones\u201d was supposed to unify his title with Tom Aspinall, but ultimately chose to retire instead. He then ended his retirement in the hopes of competing against Alex Pereira at UFC White House, but also revealed he has severe arthritis in his hips<\/a>, which has hindered any possible comeback, while recently suggesting he still could be interested in a return<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier missed out on a massive payday because Jon Jones wasn\u2019t interested. Or at least, that\u2019s what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-771621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771621","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=771621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}