The topic of “worst fight” at the event, which lost some of its luster with Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor out and with Jon Jones a late scratch because of a failed drug test, came up and Cerrone didn’t hold back as the conversation turned to the fight between Daniel Cormier and Anderson Silva – a late substitute for Jones. If you weren’t going to be satisfied with quality fights, but none of the drama, the make-up of Saturday’s fight card stopped being everything you hoped it could be when Jones disqualified himself from the competition for a second time in as many years, albeit under completely different circumstances. I want to fight Jones. There have been several fighters – Yoel Romero, Tim Means – who have been given six-month suspension after testing positive for a PED because they were able to prove that they were taking a tainted supplement, and it’s expected that Jones will go the same route. I’m going to stand by our comments at the press conference. Nobody is exempt from saying those things, you have to have some class.
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The fact that a 39-year-old Brock Lesnar walked back into the Octagon after a five-year hiatus and six-week training camp and picked up a win over a very unsafe Mark Hunt is irrelevant because “I wanted to see somebody get knocked out”.
“I think we need to kind of see what happens with Jon, kind of let him get through that and see what’s going to happen next”. Unfortunately for Silva, age, and a career that has spanned 42 fights over nearly two decades, appears to be catching up to him.
“I’m not willing to wait at all [for Jones]”.
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“I’ve been nothing but a gentleman to that guy, and he just likes to talk”. For me and my mind, my mentality. But, even if gets a lighter punishment, he’ll probably have to fight someone else before getting a shot at the Light Heavyweight Championship. “It’s so emotionally taxing with everything that has happened and it hasn’t come to pass”. ‘DC, it wasn’t a very good fight, man, I didn’t like it.’ But to do it publicly? I wasn’t going to make eight figures, but I was going to get a percentage of that. “I don’t know. When everything comes out we will know better”. There really is no reason for me to be fighting past 40. I should be spending time with my family and my children and just doing TV stuff. “I can only take care of what I can take care of. I will be satisfied with everything I’ve done”.
