{"id":245462,"date":"2017-07-29T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245462"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:27:44","slug":"daniel-cormier-fires-back-arthur-jones2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/daniel-cormier\/daniel-cormier-fires-back-arthur-jones2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier fires back at Arthur Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday afternoon prior to the UFC 214 ceremonial weigh-ins, UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier’s team was involved in a verbal spat with Arthur Jones<\/a>, the eldest brother of former light heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones.<\/p>\n

Arthur Jones recalled the situation to MMAFighting<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were like, \u2018The real champ\u2019 and all this other bullshit,\u201d Arthur Jones said. \u201cAfter a while, I got annoyed. I was like, \u2018Yeah, the paper champ.\u2019 We started jawing back and forth. They just walked away. It really wasn\u2019t nothing. People try to make a big thing out of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have ragdolled all six of them \u2014 for the record,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, Arthur stated that had Cormier been with his team, he would have had no problem slapping the champ as well.<\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/p>\n

That didn’t sit too well with Cormier, who fired back in an interview with Megan Olivi for Fox Sports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow I will beat Jon Jones… whatever way I want. I\u2019ve trained so hard for this. I\u2019ve been preparing for this since the moment I left that Octagon on January 3rd, 2015. I\u2019m not playing around any more. It\u2019s time to fight, all the fun and games, all the blowing kisses… it\u2019s done. He\u2019s got his fat brother in the stands, talking about I\u2019m going to cry. He can sit his fat ass down because I\u2019ll smack the shit out of him too.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In regards to the fight, Cormier has no shortage of confidence, stating that he will dominate Jones<\/a> when the two meet in the Octagon:<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a much better fighter today than I was. People haven\u2019t even seen all that I\u2019m capable of in the Octagon. Tomorrow I put it all on display.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI dominate him. I literally go out there and I dominate him. If you don\u2019t believe, then, just wait till tomorrow. You\u2019ll see.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 7\/29\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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