Former two-weight UFC champion, Daniel Cormier has rekindled his rivalry with fellow ex-two-weight titleholder, Jon Jones – excluding him from the talk as to who’s the best fighter of all-time — pointing on the Rochester native’s quite a few cases of manufacturing failed drug checks.
Cormier, a former undisputed mild heavyweight champion and heavyweight gold holder, is about to name the motion tonight at UFC 312, with a pair of championship clashes closing out the cardboard in Sydney.
Co-headlining the occasion, undisputed strawweight queen, Zhang Weili returns in a title protection in opposition to the unbeaten primary ranked challenger, Tatiana Suarez.
And within the evening’s principal occasion, undisputed middleweight kingpin, Dricus du Plessis defends his belt in a title rematch with the returning former undisputed gold holder, Sean Strickland.
Daniel Cormier guidelines Jon Jones from GOAT debate
Showing at a UFC 312 query and reply session this week, Daniel Cormier claimed present heavyweight champion, Jones couldn’t realistically discover himself within the debate as to who’s the best fighter of all-time — citing his quite a few return of failed drug checks.
“You can’t really deny his (Jon Jones) greatness,” Daniel Cormier advised assembled media and followers. “Look at what he has done. The guy has really fought through three generations of fighter. . . . So yeah, of course he’s one of the greatest fighters of all time. But when you do dirty sh*t, you don’t get to be called the greatest of all time.”
Slated to function at UFC 182, Jones was pulled from the cardboard after testing optimistic for benzoylecgonine, thought of the first metobilite in cocaine and forward of a UFC 200 headliner in opposition to Cormier, Jones examined optimistic for clomiphene, and letrozole, and was subsequently pulled from the cardboard.
Returning at UFC 214 in a rematch battle with Cormier — which he unified the sunshine heavyweight crowns with a high-kick knockout win, Jones’ victory was subsequently overturned to an official ‘No Contest‘ post-fight after the latter examined optimistic for the banned substance, Turinabol.
