{"id":174704,"date":"2015-11-05T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=174704"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:33:56","slug":"anthony-johnson-doesnt-think-cormier-has-earned-enough-to-make-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anthony-johnson-doesnt-think-cormier-has-earned-enough-to-make-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Johnson doesn\u2019t think Cormier has earned enough to make demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has made a couple things clear holding the title. He wants some <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ufc-champion-daniel-cormier-taking-a-break-from-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time off<\/a>, and that he does not want to fight Jon Jones at his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/champion-d-c-says-no-to-new-york-jones-scrap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hometown in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent opponent of Cormier in Anthony Johnson says that the champ hasn\u2019t earned the right to call for a vacation and spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/11\/anthony-johnson-daniel-cormier-hasnt-earned-time-off-before-jon-jones-rematch-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why he would say he wants six months off; maybe he wants time to heal, spend more time with his family and train more and just perfect his craft \u2013 I don\u2019t know,\u201d Johnson told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/11\/anthony-johnson-daniel-cormier-hasnt-earned-time-off-before-jon-jones-rematch-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>. \u201cDo I see it as being selfish? No. But I want to say this: I don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s earned it enough to say, \u2018I need six months off.\u2019 If Jon was still the champ after like two years of whooping ass and said, \u2018Dude, I need six or eight months off.\u2019 You deserve those six to eight months off because you put in the time and the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I\u2019m) not saying Daniel didn\u2019t do that, but I think he should keep grinding. In my opinion that\u2019s what Daniel does. He should just keep grinding before it gets too late because there\u2019s a lot of hungry guys coming up. It\u2019s just a matter of time before his body is going to say, \u2018No more.\u2019 He needs to stay active.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think time off will help or hurt Cormier? Will Father Time be a bigger opponent than Jon Jones if he delays the fight for too long? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has made a couple things clear holding the title. He wants some time off, and that he does not want to fight Jon Jones at his hometown in New York. 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