Name: Daniel Cormier on the Challenges of Fighting Jon Jones
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Daniel Cormier on the Challenges of Fighting Jon Jones' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-06. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- I watch a whole bunch of shit.
It's called like, one is Nature is Metal.
- Oh yeah, I love that page.
- That's a sick page, bro.
Nature is Metal.
- It's the craziest shit.
- It's the craziest.
- Nature is so metal.
- It is, dude.
Some of the shit you see on that page is nuts.
But you'll see a bear and it'll just walk around
and it just fucks everybody up.
But then when there's a bear that's as big as it,
it starts to question and it might cower down.
But in this situation,
Mike Tyson's not gonna cower down to Lennox Lewis.
So he bites him.
Right?
He bites him.
He probably fell down.
I'm gonna tell you one thing.
And I'll tell you this right now.
When I was in that press fight with Jon Jones,
I was still undefeated at the time.
And we were at the MGM Grand and he head butted me,
like put his head on me.
So I push him.
He's an alpha male too.
So the fucker attacks me.
- Right. - Right?
So we get to fight.
So we get to fighting, right?
And we're fighting and Joe, the security guard from the UFC, falls under me.
But now I'm on my back as we go flying off of the stage.
I will say there was a thought to bite the motherfucker.
He's like, what am I doing on my back?
Right?
I'm losing.
You're gonna bite the son of a bitch.
I ain't got no mouthpiece in my mouth.
And if I would have bit him,
that would have been like a reaction for a guy that usually will walk around in
most places
around this world as the alpha.
And then when he finds himself on the bottom as the alpha, he's gotta find a
way to survive.
So that's what Mike Tyson would do.
He would go as primal as he could think, how do I survive?
It was always survival with this guy.
Wow.
And if I would have bit him, you'd have been like, DC bit him, but it's not the
first time we saw somebody bite a motherfucker down there.
Because Mike Tyson did it three times.
You can't make no mistake against Milicic.
He's a survivor.
He's a survivor.
Yeah, he's tough.
He's so tough.
Yeah, he's very tough.
I was very upset when the Joe and Stipe fight got cancelled.
I was like, no.
I know.
We were looking forward to it.
Have you ever had an injury like that where it's torn off the bone?
No.
It was a very odd injury for me to watch too, because it didn't seem like it
was like, like, you know, grappling, wrestling, we get extended a lot.
Right?
Like, so when you're going, and you're doing your jujitsu, and you and I are
going, and you take, and you're in half guard.
Right?
Every time I go to get up, I build to my elbow, I get to my underhook, I'll
take a single leg.
You'll sprawl, because you gotta take your leg away from me.
When I'm up on my elbow, and I get to my half guard, and I'm on the butt here,
I will always go to a single, because I'm a wrestler.
You will sprawl, and then try to go back behind me.
My arm gets extended.
Every time.
And that's kind of what happened with Jones.
It's like, he was in and under, and the guy sprawled a little bit, and then his
arm came away from his body, and it ripped, and it's unfortunate.
Do you think that, I know John has been doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Yep.
To get up to heavy weight.
That, and the extra weight, right?
Yeah.
He's carrying all that extra weight, he's lifting all that weight, and it's
like, you gotta develop muscle, but it's gotta be usable muscle.
You can't just be big.
Well, the other thing is, if you're not doing anything, like if you're not
taking anything, then your recovery from really heavy power lifts is kind of
significant.
Didn't he lift like 600 pounds or something?
Oh my god, he's strong as fuck.
He's strong as fuck.
He looks very big now.
He looks like a heavyweight, but I just wonder, how much weight lifting do you
have to do to maintain that frame?
Yeah.
Well, he was strong.
He was always strong.
When we fought, he was strong.
Like, he was strong.
Leverage.
Great with his leverage.
Dude, the way he was able to manipulate positions, because I thought, without a
shadow of a doubt, that I would take him down at will, but it's hard.
Even if he get a takedown, it's hard against the best guys.
I picked Stipe up.
I threw him down.
Held him down for the whole first round.
And then, he got up because we gotta start again.
So now I gotta start that process all over again.
And that's why Habib Nurmagomedov was so special.
Because it didn't matter how many times he had to restart the process.
He went right back to doing that with his opponent, knowing that he was gonna
throw you to the ground.
So when you're fighting guys like Jones, he's so tall, he's so rangy, and he
just understood fighting.
The guy just understands fighting.
And it makes him hard to deal with.
And then, Joe, when you get in a clinch with this dude, he's so tall that it's
almost like you're holding him up if you're the shorter fighter.
He's like draping over the top of you.
And that is what fatigues you.
Because when I'm clinching, you know, I fought there a ton.
Like in the clinch, punch, punch, punch.
I'm trying to break your posture.
He doesn't do that.
He pushes you against the octagon, and then he leans.
So now you're carrying 220 with your weight up against the octagon, and it's
like, and then he's changing level.
Then he's spinning, trying to elbow you.
The dude just understands fighting and understands how to maneuver his body to
fatigue you.
It's crazy.
He also is the best at managing distance.
Oh, gosh.
It hurts so bad trying to get close to him.
I tell you that.
Hey, dude, it hurts so bad.
You know what I'm saying?
It hurts so bad.
The kicks to the body and the knees.
'Cause you know me, like, me and Kane were forward, forward, forward, head
movement.
Yeah.
Get close, punch, punch, punch, take you down.
Right.
But with him, he was a southpaw.
So his lead leg was right there, so I wanted to grab a single leg.
But this dude would be stepping back, kneeing me.
Kneeing me.
Kneeing me.
And then I'd be like, okay, so I need to stop going forward.
So now I'm at range, and he'd blast body kick.
And then body kick.
So now you're like, shit, I'm not gonna stay on the end of these body kicks, 'cause
they hurt.
So then you get close, and he knees you.
So it's like, you're landing, and I'm hitting him.
But he's hitting me with things that may not be as big.
Like my hand overhand, right, looks big.
But that knee just goes, boom, right in the rib, every time.
Boom, right in the rib.
And then every now and again, they catch you right in the middle.
That shit hurts bad, man.
I don't even know how the hell I was going through all that in that octagon.
Because now, it hurts.
It hurts, like, it hurts.
A Lex Pereira kick my leg, I was like, this shit hurts.