Jon Jones goofs on Daniel Cormier, discusses feud origin while on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'

Every wonder how UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and upcoming UFC 178 opponent Daniel Cormier first became enemies? On Wednesday’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Jones discussed the origin of their feud.

The late-night talk-show appearance came a few days after Jones (20-1 MMA, 14-1 UFC) and Cormier (15-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) brawled during a UFC 178 PR stop in Las Vegas (watch the Jones vs. Cormier scuffle).

Ahead of the fighters’ title fight, which airs Sept. 27 on pay-per-view in Las Vegas, “Bones” and host Jimmy Kimmel discussed the budding rivalry.

“I had no problem with him at first,” Jones said. “I met him backstage at (UFC 121), and I heard he was an Olympic wrestler, and I wrestled at a junior college and won nationals for junior college, so obviously he probably has an advantage being an Olympic-level wrestler.

“So I go up to him just trying to start conversation, and I’m like, ‘Olympics, huh?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, I wrestled in the Olympics.’ I was like, ‘I bet I could take you down any day.’ And he just – I mean, I had no idea he’d be so prideful. He took some serious offense to the fact that I didn’t know who he was initially.”

Jones and Kimmel then goofed on Cormier’s fourth-place Olympics finish and that it didn’t come with a medal. “Just the ribbon,” as Kimmel joked.

Check out the first part of Jones’ segment above, and check out the second, which includes the champ’s training regimen, below.

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