{"id":319169,"date":"2019-07-11T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=319169"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:20:31","slug":"daniel-cormier-says-jon-jones-encounter-at-espys-was-not-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-says-jon-jones-encounter-at-espys-was-not-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier says Jon Jones encounter at ESPYS was &#8216;not friendly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier ran into UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones before the ESPYS on Wednesday, and not surprisingly the encounter wasn&#8217;t cordial.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/07\/11\/daniel-cormier-jon-jones-encounter-espys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ Sports<\/a>, who spoke to Cormier at the event, the lingering resentment between DC and Jones still remains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, we&#8217;re not friendly,&#8221; Cormier said when asked if he and Jones shook hands at a Los Angeles hotel. Cormier was awarded the ESPY for MMA Fighter of the Year after a tremendous 2018 where he captured the UFC heavyweight championship and won two other fights. It&#8217;s an award that&#8217;s well deserved considering how dominant he was.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier is next tasked with facing former champion Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 241 later this summer in Anaheim. Should DC get by Miocic for a second time, the calls for a trilogy fight with Jones will be high.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cormier, it&#8217;s still his goal to beat Jones after losing a decision to him at UFC 182 and then getting knocked out with a head kick at UFC 214 (later turned into a No Contest after Jones tested positive for banned substances).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my dream twice (to beat Jones),&#8221; Cormier said.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier and Jones have both mentioned interest in a third fight between the two rivals. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-interested-in-jon-jones-vs-daniel-cormier-3-at-heavyweight\/\">Despite UFC president Dana White saying he wants to see a trilogy fight between these two at heavyweight<\/a>, both fighters remain adamant the fight happens at 205lbs, where so far Jones has proven he&#8217;s the better fighter.<\/p>\n<p>However, if a third fight does take place, don&#8217;t expect it to happen anytime soon. First, DC needs to get by Miocic at UFC 241, and that&#8217;s no small feat. As well, Jones will have to heal up after taking a beating from Thiago Santos at UFC 239. But with so much bad blood between DC and Jones still, a third fight in the future does seem to be in the cards one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think we will one day see the trilogy fight between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier ran into UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones before the ESPYS on Wednesday, and not surprisingly the encounter wasn&#8217;t cordial. According to TMZ Sports, who spoke to Cormier at the event, the lingering resentment between DC and Jones still remains. &#8220;No, we&#8217;re not friendly,&#8221; Cormier said when asked if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":280413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10153,39610],"tags":[257,483],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daniel Cormier says Jon Jones encounter at ESPYS was &#039;not friendly&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier ran into UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones before the ESPYS on Wednesday night.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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