Last week, the Nevada athletic commission named "Big" John McCarthy as the referee for the main event of UFC 200, the anticipated rematch between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones. This assignment was given despite protests from Jones's camp. Jones then doubled down on his objections yesterday afternoon saying , "I would prefer any other referee but him."
Recently, on the UFC Unfiltered podcast with Matt Serra and Jim Norton, Cormier also spoke about Jones's protests of McCarthy and his opinion on the third man in the cage for their fight.