After Daniel Cormier appeared on Kamaru Usman’s podcast this past week, things got relatively heated between the two former UFC champions after Usman compared Jon Jones to Basketball legend, Michael Jordan.
UFC CEO Dana White has spent a large amount of the year attempting to convince UFC fans and the media that Jon Jones is the current pound-for-pound number one fighter on the planet.
Although the current UFC heavyweight champion is largely regarded as the greatest MMA fighter of all time, because of his inactivity over the last few years, the majority of the fanbase disagrees with White.
Daniel Cormier gets heated when Kamaru Usman compares Jon Jones to Michael Jordan
Former UFC double champion turned commentator, Daniel Cormier has had a historic hatred for ‘Bones’ Jones, with the two’s rivalry going down as one of the most fierce in the sports history.
‘DC’ appeared on Kamaru Usman‘s and Henry Cejudo’s Pound 4 Pound Podcast this past week, and Cormier and ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ got into a heated debate after Usman claimed Jones is MMA’s version of Michael Jordan.
Usman began to explain that Jones is at the same level that Conor McGregor is in terms of being able to select his opponent, however, Cormier chirped in and said: “I thought you were gonna say Michael Jordan or some crazy sh*t like that.”
“If you would’ve said that I was leaving,” Cormier continued.
However, things then began to get heated as Usman claimed that Jones is in fact MMA’s version of Michael Jordan.
“To be honest, Jon is in a sense the Michael Jordan that we’ve seen in MMA,” Usman stated.
“No he isn’t, I’m about to leave, are you done with the interview? Do you just wanna be done? So you’re telling me Jon Jones is the Michael Jordan and Lebron James of MMA? You’re gonna sit up here in real life on five cameras (and say that)?” Cormier argued.
Daniel Cormier wonders whether Jon Jones will look past Stipe Miocic
With the 37-year-old finally scheduled to make his return to the Octagon at UFC 309 on November 16, the whole narrative around his return has been the wide disappointment that he is fighting Stipe Miocic instead of interim champion, Tom Aspinall.
Cormier has questioned whether Jones will be looking past Miocic because of the criticism surrounding the fight.
“This lends this question, people seem to be looking past Stipe, everybody is looking past Stipe so will he not train himself as hard, because if he looks past Stipe, Stipe’s a bad boy.
“Stipe Miocic is a bad boy. He hits hard, he’s not slow, he can wrestle, he’s got good cardio and Stipe’s not a quitter, that’s gonna be a tougher fight for Jon Jones than people even imagine,” Cormier claimed.
