Lätt-tungviktsmästaren Daniel Cormier kommer härnäst att försvara bältet mot Anthony Johnson i helgen under UFC 210.
Under en intervju som gjordes i veckan berättar Cormier om sin frustration över att man fortfarande pratar om den forne mästaren Jon Jones, som just nu är avstängd efter att han åkte fast i en dopningskontroll förra året inför deras returmatch.
Cormier känner att man ofta pratar om Jones på ett positivt sätt, när faktumet kvarstår att den före detta mästaren fuskade.
Det här berättade Cormier via ’5ive Rounds’:
I think we’ve got to stop saying, ‘Regardless of what happened.’ We know what happened. We know exactly what he did. So when we say stuff like, ‘Regardless of what happened,’ or we don’t state the facts, it’s almost like we’re sweeping it under the rug. We know what he did. We know the bad things that he did. We know that he tried to cheat. We know all this stuff. So I get annoyed because I’m like, ‘Why are you asking me about a guy that, three days before we were supposed to fight, pissed hot?’ That’s the stuff that annoys me, not the fact that he’s a good fighter. He’s a great fighter.
He got that year [suspension] from USADA, right? He got a year suspension and there’s this misconception that USADA believed his excuse. They did not believe his excuse. They gave him the max amount of time that they could for what he did! The defense that he had didn’t prove anything. USADA gave him the max suspension that they could give him so, to me, he’s a cheater. They didn’t buy that whole – what was it, a fertility pill, or a sex pill? They didn’t buy it because if they bought the explanation, they would not have given him the max amount of time that they could have.
You cheated. You also smashed into somebody’s car and ran away. I know what you did. If everybody else wants to ignore it, they can. I’m not.
UFC 210 äger rum på lördag i Buffalo i New York.
