Daniel Cormier doesn’t need Jon Jones to finish up like Conor McGregor in his submit UFC life.
Jones, the previous UFC mild heavyweight and heavyweight champion, retired final month. His retirement got here after months of hypothesis as as to if he could possibly be satisfied to struggle England’s Tom Aspinall. In the long run, it by no means occurred.
Jones has already been teasing a return to competitors, however Cormier appears to be hoping for the other. Talking on his podcast with Chael Sonnen, Cormier expressed his hope that Jones will quietly trip off into the sundown, as an alternative of endlessly teasing comeback fights — one thing McGregor has been doing for years.
Cormier tells Jones ‘don’t make it about you’
“Jon Jones and I don’t see eye-to-eye in most cases,” Cormier mentioned of Jones (by way of Bloody Elbow). “And, boy, he’s been nice for my YouTube right here this final couple months. Him flopping far and wide has been nice for my YouTube.
“Please don’t grow to be what Conor has grow to be within the media,” Cormier continued. “Each time an enormous story breaks, Conor’s like, I’m again, or I’m doing this…
“Don’t do this. Don’t attempt to make it about you if you voluntarily walked away from this. Conor didn’t voluntarily stroll away. Conor acquired damage, and he left. He simply hasn’t come again.
“Jones voluntarily mentioned I’m completed. So now that he’s completed, don’t attempt to make these tales about you everytime you’re a man that’s purported to have walked away from the sport.
Cormier, in fact, is the fiercest rival of Jones’ MMA profession. The pair fought twice. Jones received the primary encounter by choice. Within the second, he knocked Cormier out, however the win was overturned when he examined constructive for banned substances. Each fights had been at mild heavyweight. Cormier additionally held gold at heavyweight.
McGregor, like Jones and Cormier, is a two division UFC champ. He received his belts at featherweight and light-weight. He isn’t formally retired, however the odds of him preventing once more appear ever slimmer. His final struggle was in a 2021 loss to Dustin Poirier.
