{"id":362671,"date":"2020-09-28T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=362671"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:48:09","slug":"daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn&#8217;t want to rematch Dominick Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>After defending his title earlier this year at UFC 247 with a decision win over Reyes, Jones surprised the MMA community this summer when he officially vacated the 205lbs title, which put it up for grabs at UFC 253 in a vacant title fight between Reyes and Jan Blachowicz. In an upset, Blachowicz knocked out Reyes in the second round to win the title.<\/p>\n<p>Since Blachowicz finished Reyes to take the title, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jan-blachowicz-blasts-jon-jones-for-suggesting-he-may-return-to-light-heavyweight-go-be-boring-somewhere-else\/\">Jones has been active on social media and has teased a return to 205lbs after saying he was moving up to heavyweight<\/a>. Speaking on his latest podcast, Jones&#8217; long-time rival Jones jumped in with his theory on why Jones actually vacated the 205lbs title. According to Cormier, Jones gave it up to duck Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s so whack. Have you ever met a guy that\u2019s so out of touch? He\u2019s so out of touch. It\u2019s like, OK, Jon, then why not just go, \u2018I was afraid of Dominick Reyes. Now I want to go back to 205 and fight Jan Blachowicz because he beat Dom\u2019? That\u2019s crazy. I mean, who does that? Who does that?&#8221; Cormier said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/09\/daniel-cormier-jon-jones-vacated-title-fear-dominick-reyes-return-205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMAjunkie.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could have fought Reyes. This could have been him and Reyes (Saturday). This was supposed to be him and Reyes. Instead, he gave up the belt. He gave up the belt and said, \u2018I want to fight at heavyweight.\u2019 Now, \u2018Maybe, I\u2019ll go back?\u2019 How could you be so out of touch? I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although it certainly is strange that Jones is considering returning to 205lbs so soon after the title fight at UFC 253, it&#8217;s hard to accuse a guy like Jones of ducking anyone considering he has fought the toughest opponents in the UFC for the last decade. Then again, maybe there is more to what Cormier is theorizing than Jones has let on.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Daniel Cormier about why Jon Jones vacated the 205lbs title?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn&#8217;t want to rematch Dominick Reyes. After defending his title earlier this year at UFC 247 with a decision win over Reyes, Jones surprised the MMA community this summer when he officially vacated the 205lbs title, which put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":285193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10153,39610],"tags":[],"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 accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn&#039;t want to rematch Dominick Reyes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn&#039;t want to rematch Dominick Reyes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Cormier-5.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adam Martin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adam Martin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Adam Martin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/9121c55977ac5a06bcfc98f34d32d920\"},\"headline\":\"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\"},\"wordCount\":365,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Daniel Cormier\",\"UFC\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\",\"name\":\"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00\",\"description\":\"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn't want to rematch Dominick Reyes.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MMA News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"UFC\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/9121c55977ac5a06bcfc98f34d32d920\",\"name\":\"Adam Martin\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/adam-martin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com","description":"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn't want to rematch Dominick Reyes.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com","og_description":"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn't want to rematch Dominick Reyes.","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":399,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Cormier-5.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Adam Martin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Adam Martin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/"},"author":{"name":"Adam Martin","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/9121c55977ac5a06bcfc98f34d32d920"},"headline":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch","datePublished":"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/"},"wordCount":365,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Daniel Cormier","UFC"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/","name":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-29T02:48:09+00:00","description":"Daniel Cormier believes that his rival Jon Jones vacated the UFC light heavyweight title because he didn't want to rematch Dominick Reyes.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-accuses-jon-jones-of-giving-up-belt-due-to-fear-of-dominick-reyes-rematch\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MMA News","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"UFC","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Daniel Cormier accuses Jon Jones of giving up belt due to fear of Dominick Reyes rematch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/9121c55977ac5a06bcfc98f34d32d920","name":"Adam Martin","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/adam-martin\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}