Daniel Cormier is afraid that if he harshly criticizes Jones, he’ll come off as bitter or something along those lines. Cormier continues to be extremely gentle when it comes to covering Jon Jones. In fact, we say too gentle. Cormier understandably can’t stand Johnny Meat (Twitter), but now in his post-UFC media career, Cormier does things like insists Jon Jones isn’t scared to fight Tom Aspinall when he very clearly is.
And Cormier has a case that his losses to Jones aren’t as enormous as they’re remembered to be:
- Cormier was leaving or out of his athletic prime when they fought. Jones was at the beginning of his.
- Jon Jones was on PEDs. Cormier probably wasn’t.
- Cormier was at a significant height and reach disadvantage.
5’10 vs. 6’4 is already an uphill battle. Jones had all of the physical advantages, including the artificial ones.
We wish Cormier would stop trying to overcompensate to appear as if he isn’t bitter (and we’re not saying he is) and just be more objective.
When a fighter won’t fight another fighter, they’re scared.