Chael Sonnen is backing up the ESPN co-host resolution to depart Jon Jones from the MMA Goat listing.
In his current look in Membership Shea Sheae, Daniel Cormier excluded “bone” from the listing of all time’s best fighters, citing Jones’s historical past of banned substance abuse as a significant motive for his exclusion.
Jones wrote about X and instantly commented on Cormier’s feedback. “I am all the time a co-star when DC spoke to him.” Nevertheless, Cormier’s Good Man/Dangerous Man co-stars got here shortly to Cormier’s protection.
“Everybody goes down the trail they’re fooling the foundations as a result of they’re feeling anxious someplace,” Sonnen stated. “They needed an edge someplace, then they got here again and I may have executed it anyway.” Effectively, if you happen to thought you may, you did not assume you had put artificial chemical substances in your ass.
“John is basically upset about it. He would not deny hit and run. He would not deny the cocaine allegations. That is what bothers him. The failed take a look at of Picoglu and the couple. I imagine John was the world champion with out steroids, however he was someplace, in some unspecified time in the future he doubted it.”
There isn’t a denying that Cormier nonetheless has private hostility in the direction of Jones. In any case, two of Jones’ constructive assessments got here simply earlier than or after the scheduled struggle throughout the Octagon.
The primary occurred a month earlier than the discarded rematch at UFC 200. “Bones” was finally suspended for a yr by the Nevada Athletics Board and was quickly stripped of the interim gentle heavyweight championship.
On July 29, 2017, Jones and “DC” finally met for the second time at UFC 214 on the octagon. “Bones” received the struggle by way of TKO within the third spherical, however Jones was later overturned after it was revealed that Trinaborg, an anabolic steroid, was examined constructive.
The sunshine heavyweight title was then taken from Jones and returned to Cormier.
Cormier continued to etch his identify into historical past books, turning into one in all 4 fighters who held two UFC titles on the identical time. Nevertheless, regardless of all his success, it’s clear that his two losses to Jones are nonetheless dwelling in his head with no hire.
