UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier’s longstanding rivalry with Jon Jones continues so as to add recent chapters.
UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones is potentially weeks away from returning to the Octagon against interim titleholder Tom Aspinall in one among the most important fights of 2025. But because the wait continues for Jones’s return to the cage, one among his former rivals shared a never-before-told story from the apex of their all-time UFC feud.
Jones and Daniel Cormier battled twice of their legendary careers, with Jones getting the higher of Cormier in each encounters. But Jones’s second win over Cormier was later ruled a no-contest after failing a USADA drug test.
Years later, with Cormier on the UFC broadcast desk and Jones still competing, tensions remain strong between the 2 bitter rivals.
Daniel Cormier shares recent story from Jon Jones UFC rivalry
Within the buildup to their two UFC clashes, Cormier repeatedly questioned Jones’s character after quite a few setbacks outside of the cage. Legal and private issues derailed parts of Jones’s prime, and Cormier feasted at the chance to take advantage of his UFC rival as a lost cause.
During a pre-fight face-to-face interview ahead of their scheduled bout at UFC 200, Cormier hinted at Jones’s publicist ‘fighting a losing battle’, a shot at Jones’s struggles with substance abuse and other infractions.
In a recent episode of Good Guy/Bad Guy with Chael Sonnen, Cormier shared how a conversation with Jones’s publicist nearly set off his longtime rival.
“One time Jon and I were arguing, and I checked out his publicist and I pointed to her. ‘You will have the worst job in history, I feel sorry for you! I feel sorry you’re tasked with attempting to keep this psychopath under control!” Cormier said. “And [Jon] was sitting there, so mad at me. The one thing about Jon, Jon isn’t the very best together with his words…he just desired to kill me.
“I could see it, in his mind, if he had a gun, he would shoot me. It was bad! Poor gal.”
Jones and Cormier’s feud appeared to take a cordial turn in recent times after pre-fight media exchanges between the 2 former rivals. Cormier interviewed Jones throughout the UFC 309 weigh-in show, prompting a robust response from the UFC fanbase.
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UFC welterweight star Colby Covington recently used Cormier to jab Jones in an Instagram post. As Covington and Cormier attended WWE’s WrestleMania last weekend in Las Vegas, Covington called Cormier, and never Jones, the UFC GOAT.
Cormier has repeatedly excluded Jones from the UFC GOAT debate in favor of Khabib Nurmagomedov and other legendary names.
Despite some tension remaining between Cormier and Jones, that hasn’t stopped Cormier from surprisingly defending Jones during various moments within the latter’s profession. This includes after a bizarre Instagram live session by Jones went viral, wherein he mumbled about wanting to ‘kill’ someone.
Cormier and Jones will likely never change into friends, but their bitter feud within the UFC Octagon is previously. However the two legends will all the time be linked for one among the most important rivalries in combat sports history.
