{"id":296511,"date":"2018-12-30T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=296511"},"modified":"2018-12-29T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T06:43:51","slug":"daniel-cormier-explains-what-it-will-take-for-him-to-agree-to-light-heavyweight-rematch-with-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-explains-what-it-will-take-for-him-to-agree-to-light-heavyweight-rematch-with-jon-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier explains what it will take for him to agree to light heavyweight rematch with Jon Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday night, in the main event of the stacked UFC 232 card, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones made his anticipated return to the Octagon, where he rematched the toughest adversary of his career so far in Sweden\u2019s Alexander Gustafsson. Though Gustafsson put forth a good fight, Jon Jones once again came out on top, this time with a meteor shower of strikes in the third round (see the finish\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After this impressive stoppage victory, in his post fight interview with long-time UFC commentator Joe Rogan, Jones addressed the much discussed possibility of a third fight with his arch nemesis<\/a>, former two division champion Daniel Cormier.<\/p>\n

As he has done several times over the last few weeks, Jones offered Cormier the first shot at the UFC light heavyweight title. He also criticized Cormier for willingly vacating that same title in the lead-up to the UFC 232 card. He did not seem interested<\/a> in rematching Cormier in the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there\u2019s a guy who\u2019s been calling himself champ champ,\u201d Jones told Joe Rogan in the cage. \u201cI mean what guy gives up his belt because somebody comes home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cormier, who currently owns the heavyweight title, and has ballooned up in weight since his last fight in the 205-pound light heavyweight division, says he’d be willing to return to the division for this rematch on one condition.<\/p>\n

He wants Jon Jones to submit to an even greater battery of drug tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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@DominickCruz<\/a> you just said outside of all the testing stuff. Is there really stuff outside of the testing? Or we just do more testing and neither of us fail. That would be best case! We do that I\u2019ll be back at 205!!!!!<\/p>\n

— Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) December 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n