Chael Sonnen is backing up his ESPN co-host’s determination to depart Jon Jones off his MMA GOAT listing.
Throughout a latest look on Membership Shay Shay, Daniel Cormier excluded ‘Bones’ from his all-time listing of best blended martial artists, citing Jones’ historical past of banned substance abuse as the important thing purpose for his exclusion.
Jones was fast to touch upon Cormier’s feedback, writing on X: “When DC tells his story, in some way I’m all the time the co-star.” Nevertheless, Cormier’s Good Man/Unhealthy Man co-star was fast to come back to Cormier’s protection.
“Everyone goes down that highway the place they cheat the foundations ’trigger they someplace had the insecurity,” Sonnen mentioned. “They someplace wished an edge after which they arrive again, go ‘However I may have finished it anyway.’ Properly, possibly you didn’t assume you might. When you thought you might, you’d’ve not put an artificial chemical substance into your ass.
“Jon actually will get upset about that. He doesn’t deny the hit-and-runs. He doesn’t deny the cocaine allegations. That’s the one which bothers him — the picogram and the couple of failed checks. I do imagine Jon may’ve been champ of the world with out steroids, however someplace inside him, sooner or later, he doubted that, and that’s the life he selected.”
There’s no denying that Cormier nonetheless holds some private animosity towards Jones. In spite of everything, two of Jones’ constructive checks got here both instantly earlier than or after their scheduled fights contained in the Octagon.
The primary occurred lower than a month forward of their scrapped rematch at UFC 200. ‘Bones’ was in the end suspended for one yr by the Nevada State Athletic Fee and was promptly stripped of the interim gentle heavyweight championship.
On July 29, 2017, Jones and ‘DC’ lastly met contained in the Octagon for the second time at UFC 214. ‘Bones’ received the struggle by way of a third-round TKO, although the outcome was later overturned after it was revealed that Jones examined constructive for Turinabol, an anabolic steroid, instantly following weigh-ins.
The sunshine heavyweight title was then taken from Jones and handed again to Cormier.
Cormier went on to etch his identify within the historical past books, turning into one in all simply 4 fighters to carry two UFC titles on the similar time. However regardless of all his success, it’s clear that his two losses in opposition to Jones nonetheless stay rent-free in his head.
