Jones explains flipping off Cormier
Jon Jones spoke about the incident and explained his behavior in an interview with Fox Sports later in the night.
As he was walking out of the cage after his title win at UFC 197, Jon Jones exchanged words with Daniel Cormier and Jones ended the exchange with rude gesture in Cormier’s direction:
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Jones spoke about the incident and explained his behavior in an interview with Fox Sports later in the night:
“You know what, it wasn’t even me and Daniel Cormier,it was just me being a jerk. I wanted to give him the finger, I don’t know why. I don’t know what he said, he was commentating throughout my fight and he may have been really nice and now I’m a jerk, or he could have been talking trash. Either way, I wanted to cover my end so that’s why I said; you know what I said.”
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