Written by Marissa Payne and Patrick Wyman at Washington Post.com
It was a fight more than two years in the making and it finally happened Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones finally had their rematch, and once again, it went Jones’s way. After all the addiction issues, legal trouble and doping drama, Jones is once again the UFC light heavyweight champion.
“It feels unbelievable,” the 30-year-old said after the fight. It’s a surreal moment. I know it hasn’t been easy to root for me. I love you guys so much.”
Cormier, meanwhile, broke down in tears in the Octagon after the fight ended abruptly following two solid rounds, one of which definitely appeared to go Cormier’s way. But after holding his own, Jones caught him in the third round with a kick to the head, elbows and knees before the referee stopped the fight.
“I thought the fight was going well,” Cormier said in the cage afterward. “I don’t even know what happened.”
Cormier, who had been looking forward to a trilogy with Jones, appeared to give up on that dream.
“If you win both fights, I guess there isn’t a rivalry,” the 38-year-old said.
Indeed, it does appear that way as Jones put his personal beef with Cormier, who taunted him during the fight, aside to comfort his former foe before looking toward a future that may not involve Cormier. Instead, Jones called out Cormier’s friend and former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar.
“Lesnar, if you want to know what it’s like to get your [butt] kicked by a guy who weighs 40 pounds less than you, meet me in the Octagon,” Jones said, echoing calls he made earlier this week to fight Lesnar at a higher weight class.
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