DC: Jon Jones fight me now or never
Daniel Cormier: “We’re fighting right now or he doesn’t get to fight me. It’s my rules, I’m the champ now.”
UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier spoke recently on UFC Tonight and had a stern message for former champion Jon Jones. As the champion, DC says he can dictate when the fight takes place, and he says it’s UFC 214 on July 29, 2017 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
Take the fight with me, Jon Jones, said Cormier, as transcribed byMike Bohn for MMAjunkie. There are no tune-up fights in the UFC. Try to get your title back. Come meet your boy ‘DC,’ come get this money. Let’s get money together and give the people in Anaheim a show. No tune-up for Jon Jones, he gets to come and get beat by me this time. We’re fighting right now or he doesn’t get to fight me. It’s my rules, I’m the champ now.”
The person that we saw against Ovince Saint Preux is the new, USADA-regulated Jon Jones. He’s always going to look like that. So, yes, I will beat him up on July 29th.
Jones wants the fight too, so the date and place appear to be set. A question that remains is will the fight be a main event? UFC president Dana White has said he will not put Jones in a main event given how unreliable he has been. So another question is unfortunately will Jones do something that gets him pulled.