Daniel Cormier doesn’t care to reconcile with Jon Jones.
The former arch rivals served as coaches for Season 3 of ALF Global’s “Alf Reality” series, a Russian version of the UFC’s “The Ultimate Fighter.” Prior to the filming of the show, Jones said he was open to building a friendship with Cormier after years of bad blood.
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However, after the conclusion of the show, Jones went off on Cormier by calling him a d*ckhead and accusing him of wanting to be enemies forever. Cormier is indifferent to Jones’ opinion of him.
“Maybe I’m all those things to him,” Cormier said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “Here’s the deal: We were around each other every single day, and we were cordial. We had times where Jon and I actually laughed at stuff. We laughed together at stuff. But if I didn’t have to be around him, I’m not going to voluntarily be around him. Why would I want that? I don’t harbor the emotion of the past that I did with him. I really don’t.
“But we spoke negatively about each other’s families. We had a nasty, nasty thing. He cheated constantly. I don’t have to let him off the hook and be his friend. That would be me just going, ‘Everything you did is good.’ It’s not. It just wasn’t good. So yeah, I can be cordial, I can work alongside you, I can do my thing, but I don’t have to be your friend. I’m a man. It is what it is. No, I’m not going to be friends with you.”
Cormier and Jones fought twice in UFC light heavyweight title fights. Jones handed Cormier his first-career setback when he defeated him by unanimous decision at UFC 182, then knocked him out in their rematch at UFC 214 – an outcome that was overturned to a no contest after he failed a drug test.
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“I don’t need to be (friends with him),” Cormier added. “I always tell him that. I said, ‘Hey, man, happy endings and fairytales are for kids that need these things to go to bed at night, little girls who believe in princesses and princes.’ You don’t need to be friends with everybody. You don’t have to be friends with everybody that you had a problem with. It’s fine. Just do your thing, I’ll do mine, and we’ll be OK. Like, y’all want to pay us to do this show? OK. A boatload of money?
“I can do a show with him, and I want to beat him, but we don’t need to be friends. We don’t need to be getting drinks together and having dinners and doing all these crazy things. You don’t need to have fairytale endings to everything in life. Life ain’t fair, man. And if fair is me being your friend then, sorry, you’ve got a life ahead of you that will just not be fair. But am I going to run at Jon Jones and fight him every time I see him? No. If he says hi to me, I’ll say to hi to him, but why do we need to be friends?”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Daniel Cormier responds to Jon Jones calling him ‘d*ckhead’
