{"id":74129,"date":"2013-11-12T07:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=74129"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:29:53","slug":"jon-jones-details-beef-with-daniel-cormier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/jon-jones-details-beef-with-daniel-cormier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones Details &#8216;Beef&#8217; With Daniel Cormier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/png_jon-jones.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72840\" title=\"png_jon-jones\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/png_jon-jones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/png_jon-jones.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/png_jon-jones-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/png_jon-jones-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The whole story behind me and him is just so silly. I met him, and I came up to him with a big smile on my face. He&#8217;s another black guy in the sport, and I felt the need to say hello to him, and I was just like \u2018hey man, I hear you&#8217;re a great wrestler&#8217; and all this stuff, and he&#8217;s like \u2018Yeah, yeah, you don&#8217;t know who I am?&#8217; I&#8217;m like \u2018No I don&#8217;t know who you are, but my coaches were telling me that you wrestle on the Olympic level.&#8217; And I was like \u2018I bet you that I could take you down.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was my way of trying to develop a new friendship, and he just took it so seriously, and he was just so offended that I didn&#8217;t know who he was, and from that moment on he decided that there was a beef between us. I was just trying to reach out to him at that moment, and he just decided that there wouldn&#8217;t be a friendship between us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s cool by me. If this guy has some kind of personal vendetta or chose to have a beef with me it&#8217;s fine. It just kind of sucks because both of us being African-American guys in the sport I think we should get along and respect each other, but that&#8217;s not the case.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2013\/11\/4\/5060680\/jon-jones-talks-ea-sports-cover-gustafsson-teixeira-cormier-rampage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>, UFC light-heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, explains the rivalry between himself and top heavyweight fighter Daniel Cormier.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier, ranked #2 in the UFC&#8217;s heavyweight division, is planning a drop in weight so that he can challenge Jones for his light-heavyweight strap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The whole story behind me and him is just so silly. I met him, and I came up to him with a big smile on my face. 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