‘Failed Drug tests eliminate you from the G.O.A.T conversation’ Daniel Cormier comments on Jon Jones
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There are a lot of different conversations going on in UFC about the G.O.A.T status following the retirement of Khabib Nurmagomedov. Khabib became the number one pound-for-pound fighter with his win against Justin Gaethje and this doesn’t please the former Light Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones.
Jones put up the point that he has defended his title 15 times against the 3 title defense of Khabib. Then how Khabib can be hailed as the G.O.A.T. Jones’s former rival Daniel Cormier also shared his point of view about G.O.A.T conversation ruling Jones out of it.
Cormier says, “One of the most talented guys you’ll ever meet but again for me bad drug tests eliminate you from the conversation. I just cannot understand how that is so hard to comprehend in a sport where we’re fighting each other.”
“In baseball, bad tests eliminate you from being considered and being in the Hall of Fame and you’re hitting a ball. You’re hitting an object that has no feeling. In fighting, you’re punching people, human beings, and you have bad tests that eliminate you. It’s just too dangerous.”
Cormier slammed Jones about his drug issues in past
The fight between D.C. and Jonny Bones that was scheduled for UFC 200 has been canceled after Jones has been found positive for using two banned substances. Referring to this he further added, “So I think when you start to think about the greatest of all time for all the things and all the great victories,
“You can’t look at those, me personally being a guy that those fights did really long term damage to my career, it’s hard for me to say Jones is the greatest of all time when every time we fought, there was some sort of issue. That for me, it just kind of changes the conversation.”
“Jones was having bad tests while we had USADA and people still want to place him at the top of the all-time greatest list. That’s crazy. It wasn’t even illegal in baseball in the late ’90s and those guys are hitting home runs freaking 50 yards longer than they ever have. It’s just a different sport obviously, but it just seems like the possibilities of damage are just so much more severe in mixed martial arts.”
“For anyone, even Anderson Silva. Anderson was the man. Bad tests, I don’t care if it’s for viagra, it does not matter. It’s a bad test. Bad tests in a combat sport where you’re punching people, just not right. It eliminates you.”
Cormier pick these fighters in his G.O.A.T list
Cormier named Khabib Nuramgomedov, George St. Pierre, and B.J. Penn as his personal G.O.A.T. He also says, “It sucks, too, cause they’re so immensely talented, So talented that I don’t think any of those guys ever needed to do anything wrong and would have been clean. Like Khabib’s clean. Nobody has heard or suggested or thought that he’s done anything negatively outside of missing weight when he was on his way up”
“Those are the things that he is going to have to deal with in terms of negatively. Demetrious Johnson is actually completely clean. No missed weights, no failed tests, he’s just clean. Those are the types of guys you look at and say ‘that guy’s the greatest fighter of all-time.”
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