{"id":387200,"date":"2026-01-04T07:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387200\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:35:18","slug":"jon-jones-gives-daniel-cormier-first-ufc-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387200\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones gives Daniel Cormier first UFC loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 3, 2026, 5:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FDvCZWhRsxQ?si=GKo6AOa0_CRNLUg-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"UFC 182: Fight Motion\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FDvCZWhRsxQ\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Then-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones headlined UFC 182 against arch rival Daniel Cormier. The buildup to their first fight included a press conference <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2014\/08\/04\/video-jon-jones-daniel-cormier-scuffle-fall-off-stage-at-ufc-178-media-day\/82436094007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faceoff stage shove and melee<\/a>\u00a0months earlier, ahead of when the two originally were supposed to meet at UFC 178.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And a few weeks before the fight, Jones was flagged for a <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2015\/01\/06\/ufc-champion-jon-jones-tests-positive-for-cocaine-reportedly-enters-rehab\/82415998007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drug test failure for cocaine<\/a> \u2013 though he served no suspension because it was out of competition, and the test failure wasn&#8217;t announced until three days after his <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2015\/01\/04\/ufc-182-results-jon-jones-tested-but-defends-title-against-daniel-cormier\/82416973007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision win<\/a> over Cormier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">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<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/74909621007-Jon-Jones-UFC-285-ceremonial-weigh-ins-2_1.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 3, 2026, 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday marks the 11-year anniversary of one of the most important main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[159202,49,48,641,638,82,160714,160715,164464,164463,159087,159750,159089,160783,159085],"class_list":["post-387200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagdaniel-cormier","tag-tagjon-jones","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagufc","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}