{"id":369787,"date":"2020-12-01T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=369787"},"modified":"2020-12-01T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:24:49","slug":"daniel-cormier-makes-suggestion-for-jon-jones-first-heavyweight-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-makes-suggestion-for-jon-jones-first-heavyweight-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier makes suggestion for Jon Jones’ first heavyweight opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former two-division UFC champ Daniel Cormier believes a heavyweight fight between Jon Jones and Curtis Blaydes makes “all the sense in the world.”<\/p>\n

Jones, the most dominant light heavyweight fighter in MMA history, recently vacated the UFC light heavyweight title with plans to move up to the heavyweight division. While it’s still not clear who he’ll fight in his first fight in this new weight class, Cormier believes Blaydes should get the call.<\/p>\n

Blaydes was slated to fight Derrick Lewis in the main event of UFC Vegas 15 last Saturday, but was forced out of the matchup at the eleventh hour when he tested positive for COVID-19. With that matchup on ice, Cormier feels it’s the perfect time to schedule Blaydes for a fight with Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cJones needs a heavyweight fight. I say move Blaydes to Jones. \u2026 It makes all the sense in the world,\u201d Cormier said on ESPN’s DC & Helwani<\/em><\/a> show (via MMA News<\/a>). \u201c(If) Jones beats Blaydes, nobody will ever say he doesn\u2019t belong at heavyweight. (If) Blaydes beats Jones, now he has beaten the greatest of all time \u2013 in people\u2019s minds \u2013 going up to heavyweight. He\u2019ll get his title shot right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, just days prior to this suggestion from Cormier, Blaydes discussed a potential heavyweight fight with Jones, emphasizing that he’d require a serious pay boost<\/a> to accept a fight with the light heavyweight legend.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m not (fighting Jones),” Blaydes told TSN. “If I win this fight (with Lewis), I want the title shot. I\u2019m not going to be cannon fodder to build up someone else. I\u2019ve already built up myself and I feel like I\u2019ve earned that. I feel like I don\u2019t have to take that fight if I don\u2019t need it. That\u2019s a title fight. I\u2019m not fighting Jon Jones to prove that I deserve a heavyweight title shot, that\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about money. I\u2019m not going to fight Jon Jones for 200k, that\u2019s ridiculous. I think that a lot of people forget that we get paid what we get paid regardless of who the opponent is. So I don\u2019t need to fight Jon Jones to make my 200k. I can fight a bum and make 200k. If I fight Jon Jones, I want that money.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of this suggestion from Daniel Cormier? Does a Jon Jones vs. Curtis Blaydes fight make sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former two-division UFC champ Daniel Cormier believes a heavyweight fight between Jon Jones and Curtis Blaydes makes “all the sense in the world.” Jones, the most dominant light heavyweight fighter in MMA history, recently vacated the UFC light heavyweight title with plans to move up to the heavyweight division. 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