Daniel Cormier cordial with Jon Jones but doubts they’d ever train

Daniel Cormier can’t relate to Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker’s linkup.

Adesanya and Whittaker turned from foes to associates after spending a while coaching collectively at Metropolis Kickboxing. The previous middleweight champions fought one another twice, and Whittaker jokingly admitted he would have ran Adesanya over with a automobile if he might have throughout their rivalry.

Cormier isn’t any stranger to feuds, a part of arguably the most important rivalry in UFC historical past with Jon Jones. And whereas the pair at the moment are cordial, they by no means fairly absolutely buried the hatchet – and Cormier can stay with that.

“I believe it’s nice. I simply don’t know if I ever might’ve did it,” Cormier mentioned on “Good Man/Dangerous Man” with Chael Sonnen. “It’s tempered, Jones and I. It’s not what it was. We will actually be in the identical space with one another now and be cordial. It’s not what it was. Earlier than we’d simply battle in every single place, whether or not we had been in a bar or a membership. Irrespective of the place we had been, we’d attempt to battle one another, and I’ll be sincere: That was enjoyable.

“However I don’t want that fuzzy feeling. I don’t hate that Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield squashed their beef they usually’re laughing, joking. But when Evander by no means forgave him for biting his ear off, I wouldn’t have had an issue with it. Typically rivalries have to stay.”

Cormier clarifies that Adesanya and Whittaker’s historical past by no means obtained as private as his did with Jones, so it’s not fairly the identical.

“I don’t know that these guys had that kind of rivalry, and that’s why I’m OK with them being associates,” Cormier mentioned. “They didn’t like one another within the second as a result of they each needed the identical factor so dangerous. As soon as that factor isn’t out there to both of them proper now. Whittaker’s not near a championship.

“Adesanya doesn’t appear to be near a championship. That factor isn’t out there, the factor that divided them is now form of off to the facet, they usually can transfer previous that and form of be associates and practice. Hopefully these guys can revive their careers to the place they’ll go and check out chase that factor once more, however I like my rivalries to final.”