Cormier: Jones punishment is fair
Daniel Cormier: “The system is in place for a reason, so we have to all agree that it’s fair.Jon is not getting off scot-free. He will now be able to help young children.”
Ariel Helwani spoke with UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, shortly after it was announced that former division champion Jones would be spending no jail time and received no fines for the incident that led to his loss of title.
“When this incident happened, the thought wasn’t really that Jon was going to serve jail time,” said Cormier to MMA Fighting. “The hope was that there would be some sort of punishment for his actions, and that was the punishment levied by the judicial system. The system is in place for a reason, so we have to all agree that it’s fair.
“Jon is not getting off scot-free. He will now be able to help young children and talk to them so that they don’t make mistakes like he has over the course of his life.
“Hopefully on the other side he becomes a better person and he gets back to doing what he does best, and that’s fighting.”
“I would love to fight him. I have to get by Alexander Gustafsson first, and then we’ll see what happens. But yeah, I would love for it to be Jon Jones next.”
Daniel Cormier fights Alexander Gustafsson in the main event of UFC 192 on Saturday night in Houston, Texas, live on Pay Per View.