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:

1. Cormier was leaving or out of his athletic prime when they fought. Jones was at the beginning of his.
2. Jon Jones was on PEDs. Cormier probably wasn’t.
3. 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.

When is the charade going to stop? Every time a known figure in the MMA media is confronted with MMA Guru reality, they have to feign like they’re not quite sure if they’ve heard of him.

Guru’s channel has over 141,000,000 views and he’s by far the most powerful voice in MMA media. Come on guys, of course you know who he is. It just makes you sound stupid because it’s so obviously a lie.

Ironically, Josh Thompson, who is far, far, far less relevant than Guru tried to pull this act and then immediately knew everything about him.

In the clip above, Daniel Cormier also exhibits this behavior, going out of his way to say how unaware of MMA Guru he is which only shows that he is completely aware of who he is. Here’s the sequence where Guru addresses the act:

DC: So MMA Guru, who I really don’t know who that is, but the way that Air (spelling?) said it to me today, it means that this person’s somebody…

Guru: I don’t know who MMA Guru is? Are we pretending again, Daniel? Is that what we do? Are we pretending again? “I don’t know who MMA Guru is.” I mean, I’m not trying to be egotistical here to kick things off, okay, but I said, “Are we pretending again, DC?” I know you watched this entire saga about Jon Jones with a hot box of Popeye’s chicken on your lap in your dimly lit lounge after your wife went up to bed and the coast was clear. Maybe I’m wrong on this, okay, maybe I am, but even still, and I like that DC had to chuck out that he had no idea who I was.

DC: But the way that Air said it to me today, it means that this person’s somebody.

Guru: It’s good to know that I’m on the minds of UFC staff members. Okay, I’m glad I’m a somebody to the UFC staff members that are putting out these ideas for what’s going to be on the show. It’s all good.

DC: Because she goes, “Did you see what MMA Guru said?” and I’m like, “Well, I have no idea who MMA Guru is.”