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Daniel Cormier isn’t about to let Jon Jones off the hook for his failed USADA drug test following the pair’s fight at UFC 214 in July of 2017.
Jones, of course, initially won the fight via knockout but the result was later overturned after he failed the aforementioned test.
Of course, the UFC has since since parted ways with the doping agency.
“Man I survived USADA,” Jones tweeted about the move on Thuesday. “First they said I was guilty of having picograms, then they considered me innocent, next picograms became legal. Guess what I’m still here, still unbeaten. That BS no-contest over DC needs to be taken off my record. I’ve never cheated this sport and I will stand by that until the Day I die. [goat emoji].”
Cormier, however, doesn’t exactly see things the same way.
“People will try to rewrite history. You can’t rewrite history,” he said said on his YouTube channel. “There’s gonna be a time — it was multiple times [he tested positive] — you can try to rewrite history and it’ll be like during baseball there was the steroid era and all those guys don’t get to go into the Hall of Fame. Will we look back on 2015 to 2023 as the USADA era? And will these guys that had these things deal with issues going forward in terms of tainting their resume, especially if someone that is middling now becomes an absolute superstar after USADA is gone?”
Cormier went on to say that the failed drug test and fall out are a big part of why he and Jones have never truly reconciled.
“We have a short memory as MMA fans,” Cormier said. “Our memory is super short. But let me say this, you don’t get to rewrite history. You don’t get to say — well, first off, I don’t believe that it’s all true. This is one of the reasons Jones and I could never just truly come to a common ground because sometimes you just say whatever you want.”
Cormier clearly sees things far, far differently from Jones. And it doesn’t sound like they’re going to find common ground anytime soon.
But ultimately it makes for great entertainment for the rest of us. That’s all that really matters.