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Jon Jones still complaining about referee choice for UFC 200, Daniel Cormier tells him to 'nut up'

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones does not like veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) referee "Big" John McCarthy.

Something about "bad energy."

So you can imagine how incensed "Bones" must have been to learn that McCarthy was attached to the UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, which takes place on July 9, 2016 inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, even though Jones and Co. tried (and failed) to stop him.

"I would prefer any other referee but him. It's been a mixture of many things throughout the years.