Daniel Cormier: No Way Jon Jones Who Showed Up at UFC 197 Could Beat Me

Daniel Cormier couldn’t help but feel a twinge of regret as he watched the UFC 197 main event from cageside as a guest analyst. While Jon Jones was successful in his bid to claim interim light heavyweight gold against Ovince St. Preux at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night, he wasn’t nearly as dominant as expected. Instead, it took the Jackson-Wink representative a full five rounds to dispatch OSP. Even though it was a clear-cut unanimous decision for Jones, it did little to strike fear into Cormier, who claimed the vacant 205-pound crown during his rival’s indefinite suspension from the UFC. “He got the job done. A lot of times most guys don’t have their best performance, they lose. They don’t get it done. That shows just how special Jon is,” Cormier said in an interview on Fox Sports 1. “That being said, I’m very disappointed that I didn’t get to compete tonight because I do believe if he showed up in the form he did tonight, if this is the new Jon Jones, there is no way that he can beat …

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