If there is one person out there who knows what can happen if you have a beef with Jon Jones, it is Daniel Cormier.
The two had a huge rivalry, which resulted in Cormeir losing both matches; however, their rematch was designated a no-contest due to Jones testing positive for a banned substance.
Recently, interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has a reunification fight and has been jabbing at Jon Jones, hoping to get a match. During UFC Fight Night 255 in London, Aspinall showed up with a rubber duck to poke fun at Jones.
Tom Aspinall with the toy duck on the crowd cam 😭🦆 #UFCLondonpic.twitter.com/q3YZr77bEe
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Cormeir warned Aspinall that he should be careful about what he wishes for because he might get it.
“He’s very mean,” Cormier said of Jones on “Good Guy/Bad Guy” with Sonnen. “He’s durable, he’s hard to fight, and Tom Aspinall is going to find that out, right? So yes, Chael, I love the duck, I love all the fun, I love all that, but at the end of the day when you get in there with that dude, don’t start rethinking things. Because (if) you start rethinking things in there with that dude, he’s going to run right through you. You cannot start going, ‘Hey, man, it’s a little harder than I thought,’ because he is going to put it on you.”
The British fighter has given a positive update on the potential for the fight after meeting with the UFC.
Cormeir also added that Aspinall isn’t going to have a quick night like he did against Curtis Blaydes.
“I don’t believe Aspinall feels that way,” Cormier continued. “You know what the craziest thing is about being Tom Aspinall and being young and winning? The fans and the world can really make you go, ‘I am going to get this dude.’ And then you’re in there and you start losing, and you’re like, ‘God dang it, how am I losing?’ How does he deal with that if that starts to show itself in the fight or a long fight, because it’s going to be hard to get Jon Jones out of there in a minute.”
