{"id":245143,"date":"2017-07-25T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245143"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:04","slug":"jon-jones-admits-great-dude-daniel-cormiers-steroid-accusations-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-admits-great-dude-daniel-cormiers-steroid-accusations-getting\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones admits “great dude” Daniel Cormier’s steroid accusations are getting to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon, light heavyweight rivals<\/a> Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones spoke on the official UFC 214 media conference call. One of the more interesting moments of this call occurred after Cormier once again suggested Jones had abused steroids<\/a> throughout his title reign. Though Jones initially ignored this comment, he later went off on Cormier for attacking his character, and claimed that, deep down, Cormier knows he never did steroids.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis whole thing that we\u2019re going through, it has become an attack on my character,\u201d Jones said (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cThat\u2019s all this thing is, is an attack on my character. When people ask Daniel what he thinks about me inside the Octagon, he has sh*t to say about me.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve competed against someone who is literally just fighting to prove that I\u2019m a bad guy. F*ck it, call me the bad guy. I\u2019m not fighting to be the good guy. I\u2019ve never had anyone just attack \u2014 I mean, look at those interviews, it\u2019s always the same sh*t. Now he\u2019s trying to freaking convince the world that I did steroids. That actually gets to me a little bit, because I think deep down this motherf*cker knows that I wouldn\u2019t do steroids. Come on now, come on now. Being the youngest champion (in UFC history), you mean to tell me I\u2019m smart enough to outsmart f*cking USADA and f*cking the Nevada Athletic Commission for 10 years? But I failed a cocaine test? I\u2019m a mastermind steroid user that beat all these guys for 10 years? He knows in his heart that I didn\u2019t do steroids.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole thing has become an attack on Jon Jones\u2019 character,\u201d the former champ continued. \u201cI feel like when Daniel loses, he\u2019ll be able to say, \u2018well, I\u2019m a f*cking good guy. I\u2019m a good guy and at least people will respect me for a being a good champion when I had that belt in Jon\u2019s absence.\u2019 And I think that he deserves respect because he is a good guy. But you don\u2019t have to sh*t on other people to try to make yourself seem that much, Daniel.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see that you\u2019re a good person. We see that you\u2019re a great husband, father, wrestling coach, team captain. I admire a lot of things about you. You\u2019re a f*cking great dude, but you don\u2019t got to f*cking try to convince the world that I did steroids, bro. Just f*cking look yourself in the mirror and say, \u2018goddamnit, he\u2019s younger than me, he\u2019s athletic, he beat my ass, and he\u2019s going to do it again.\u2019 Don\u2019t f*cking crush somebody else\u2019s image to make yourself seem more mighty. You\u2019re already a f*cking good dude.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jon Jones will challenge Daniel Cormier for the light heavyweight strap this Saturday in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

What do you think of these rather candid comments from Jon Jones?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 7\/25\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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