Overview
- Serving as rival coaches on Russia’s ALF Reality, Daniel Cormier challenged Jon Jones to a wrestling match with a $50,000 wager from each side, and Jones refused with a “You’ve had your chance” reply on social media.
- Jones answered Kamaru Usman’s prediction that Brock Lesnar would beat him in a Real American Freestyle match by declaring Friday that he would have his hand raised over both men in one night.
- Their TV exchanges resurfaced UFC 214, where Jones’s head-kick win was overturned to a no-contest after a Turinabol positive, with Cormier alleging cheating and Jones insisting the finish was called a year in advance.
- Jones’s next bout remains unclear after he was left off a proposed White House lawn event, publicly asked the UFC for his release, announced retirement, and then walked it back following talks with executive Hunter Campbell.
- Real American Freestyle is an upstart mat-wrestling outlet drawing fantasy match talk about Jones, yet no cross-discipline bouts are booked and the Lesnar scenario remains hypothetical despite his NCAA title pedigree.