Daniel Cormier initially criticised Jon Jones for his win over Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232, but the former Olympian was much more level-headed on last Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.
Speaking to Luke Thomas, ‘DC’ credited ‘Bones’ for the win and hailed the newly-crowned UFC light heavyweight champion as a ‘phenomenal mixed martial artist.’ Jones, who beat Cormier at UFC 182 and UFC 214 (latter win overturned to a No Contest after Jones tested positive for PEDs), TKO’d Gustafsson in the third round to claim the vacant light heavyweight title.
“Anytime you can go through a guy like Alexander Gustafsson in the fashion that he did is very impressive,” Cormier said of Jones, per MMA Fighting’s Shaun Al-Shatti.