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Normally quite a cheery gent, UFC light-heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier is not smiling today. After learning that Jon Jones was removed from UFC 200 for failing a USADA drug test, ‘DC’ had a few words to say about his longtime rival.
Captured by MMAJunkie.com, Cormier reacts with despair as journalists ask him questions about Jones during a thrown together presser. Not a great day for MMA as a whole, but a pretty terrible day for the champion and the UFC.
“Very disappointing,” Cormier told reporters. “I worked really hard to prepare for this. You know, you take care of what you can take care of and that’s what I did. More than anything, just very disappointing.
“I’ve done everything right. I put myself in a position where I felt I could win this fight. So, to hear something like this is very sad, from a competitive standpoint and from a financial standpoint. There are a number of ways in which this is disappointing and I really don’t know exactly how to explain how I’m feeling right now.”
“Honestly I tried to make it a point that stuff was irrelevant to me, because I was worried about the fight on Saturday night.” Cormier said. “I spent a lot of time on the build-up to the first fight dealing with emotional stuff, and out of the octagon stuff and I just, after the press conference in March I just realized that I cannot fight this battle for anyone, I have to fight it for myself. So my focus shifted. It was me, and my family, my team, and just represent the company at the best of my ability.”
“He said all the right things. Got a team to manage him, in all the areas of his life, not just inside of the octagon with his coaches, but he got a crisis management coach, so very surprising. Sometimes, I was very hard on him. But at the end of it, if he was doing better, who am I to be the moral police? I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve done some things in my life that are terrible. I’ve been through a divorce because of things that I have done outside of my marriage. I’m not perfect. I’ve done a lot of negative things in my life, but I try to just improve on them as I move forward. If anybody has given me chances, obviously he deserves a chance if he’s going to do the right thing. So I’m not the moral police, I really don’t care all that much to judge him all the time.”
