Daniel Cormier: Are you as stupid as Jon Jones?

Much of the trash talk between fighters is manufactured because it puts butts in seats. And sometimes it’s real. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier despised each other. When Ali, once a jailed pariah, lit the torch at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Frazier mused that he’d like to push him into the flames, and explained, “I want to cut him into pieces and send him up to Jesus.” The two had last fought in 1975.

Former UFC light heavyweight champions Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier despise each other too. DC argues that, after multiple troubling performance-enhancing drug tests, there will always be an asterisk next Jones’ record. Jones argues that he beat Cormier, and beat him again.

Rumors circulated for years that Jones once avoided a drug test by hiding all day under a cage at Jackson-Wink. When Israel Adesanya, who has taken the reins from Cormier as trash talker in chief, brought the rumor up, “Bones” confirmed it, but said he was trying to avoid testing positive for cannabis, not PEDs. On the latest episode of the DC and Helwani show, DC responded to Jones’ qualified confession.

“I was like ‘Wow, it was actually true,’ said Cormier. Because I had heard it. I heard it for years, but I didn’t use it because I couldn’t prove that it was true. It was true.

The reality is, if it’s true, and with Jones’s history, if you believe that it was for marijuana you’re as stupid as him. You’re as dumb as him because come on, that’s the dumbest excuse. ‘I smoked that, so that’s why.’ Come on man. That’s not true, man. Come on. I’m sorry Jones, I’m not buying it. I’m sorry Jones. You were cheating man. You were cheating just like all those other times and you got scared. He hid underneath the Octagon, but boy you’ve got to have a criminal mindset to know that that’s the place they’re not going to look.

That probably should have been rock bottom. Honestly. Like ‘Oh I’m doing things so wrong that I’m hiding underneath the Octagon from drug testers.’ Jeez man, but the discipline to sit under there all that time is crazy.

Listen, the guy failed drug tests on multiple occasions after we fought, before we fought. I know that the guy does bad things, so to hear that that was real it was very discouraging. It sucks because like I said a number of times, I don’t think the guy needed all that stuff to win the fights. He could win a fight with anybody any time. He just does not need to be doing those things.

What about the rest of the people though? How do you look at everybody else? This was not done individually. So who else was involved in him doing that? You know what I’m saying? You’ve got to look at a lot of people in that gym and go wow, you’ve guys are kind of dirty a little bit.