Rivaliteten mellan UFCs nuvarande mästare i lätt tungvikt Jon Jones och den forne mästaren Daniel Cormier har varit fylld av starka känslor.
Rivaliteten tog slut under UFC 214 då de möttes i sin returmatch och Jones besegrade Cormier via knockout och en gråtande, skakad Cormier sade i oktogonintervjun att rivaliteten nu var över eftersom Jones vunnit två gånger.
Jones säger nu i Sway in the Morning att det var tufft att se Cormier gråta efter matchen.
It was tough to watch him cry because he’s such a good ambassador of our sport. I feel like one-on-one sports like MMA and boxing, these are sports where you see grown men cry,
Your success is all on your shoulders, where on a basketball team or football team you can blame it on the other people on the court or field with you… with MMA, it’s all you out there. It’s just such a personal thing when you’re defeated. Your legacy and everything. They’re not talking about your team, they’re talking about you forever. The way men get attached to this sport, it’s this beautiful thing. It’s why he cried. It just shows how much this s—t means to him.
Tidigare i veckan har Jones sagt att han skulle tänka sig att en tredje match mellan de båda inte är omöjlig. I sin intervju med Sway säger han att han hoppas på att de båda kan försonas.
I’d like to be cool with him, especially being a young black man, there’s not too many black men in the sport. So I think it’s sad when we’re at each other’s throats. If anything we should be rallying around each other, supporting each other and lifting each other up. I would like to eventually get to a place where we can support each other, do charity events together, do an interview together to talk about our beef… I think people would like to see us try to mend things and be one.
