During an appearance Monday on The MMA Hour, Cormier extended an open invitation for Saint Preux to travel to San Jose and train -- all expenses paid -- at American Kickboxing Academy ahead of his UFC light heavyweight interim title fight against Jones on April 23 at UFC 197.
While Saint Preux ultimately declined Cormier's offer, Jones was less than pleased by the whole exchange, which he saw as an act of fearfulness on Cormier's part.
"Daniel is an absolute coward who will never beat me," Jones said on The MMA Hour. "And I say that not from an arrogant place.