Jon Jones Not Done Taunting Daniel Cormier, UFC Title Fight Official, Heavyweight Challenges Jones
- With a stacked January and February planned for the UFC, they added a major jolt to their schedule with the upcoming UFC 185 show Dallas in March. News was broken by Front Row Brian of the FRB Show that the company planned a Lightweight championship bout between Anthony "Showtime" Pettis and Rafael dos Anjos on March 14.
The #-1 ranked dos Anjos got the spot over the injured Khabib Nurmagomedov, who is still healing a surgically repaired knee.
- Much speculation has been made of UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones eventually moving to the heavyweight division after running through the top talent at 205-pounds. While Jones said he doesn't plan on doing that any time soon, current Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum hopes to welcome him to the division. Werdum congratulated Jones on his victory over Daniel Cormier on Twitter, but said that he should stay in his own weight division.
"He's the one who started all this, saying he would fight me every day," Werdum told MMA Fighting. "If he wants to fight me every day, he should come to Kings MMA and spar with me."
Jones said that he'd also fight champion Cain Velasquez in a "heartbeat," but that he's still making 205-pounds very easily. He said that if he fights at heavyweight it will be against the right opponent for the right amount of money.
Jones spoke in November about heavyweights he would like to fight, specifically naming Werdum because he isn't as big as most heavyweights. There are rumors that the two had to be physically separated while grappling in the past because things got too heated.
- Even though he walked away with a decisive victory at Saturday night's UFC 182 event, Jones wasn't done rubbing salt in challenger Daniel Cormier's wounds. Jones posted a photo of him taking Cormier down, with a quote from his opponent, a former Olympian. You can see the photo below.
Jones also gave Cormier the "suck it" gesture after the bout.
"CORMIER: 'If I decide to take Jon Jones down 100 times, I'll take him down a 100 times'"
CORMIER: "If I decide to take Jon Jones down 100 times, I'll take him down a 100 times"
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