Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones are back to beefing again.

The former light heavyweight champion and the current one have a long history of dislike which culminated in Jones defeating Cormier to retain his UFC title at UFC 182. Jones was then stripped of his title for outside-the-cage incidents and Cormier won the vacant belt by submitting Anthony Johnson. Since then, Cormier and Jones have been booked to fight each other several more times but their business has remained unfinished due to injury withdrawals and a failed drug test by Jones. Now however, the UFC is attempting to set a rematch, this time at UFC 214.

Attempting is the operative word though because, despite some reports that the bout is official, yesterday Daniel Cormier took to social media to complain that Jones had yet to sign the bout agreement.

Cormier doubled down on the shots at Jones, calling the former champion “the devil” and saying he would make a deal with him, while goading him with pictures of detox supplements.

In response, Jones appeared in a video with his barber, shooting the bird at Cormier and calling himself the UFC light heavyweight champion.

Of course, Cormier is the light heavyweight champion as Jones was stripped of the title in 2015 and then stripped of his interim title last year after the failed drug test. Cormier didn’t take kindly to the insinuation from Jones, responding on Twitter and then addressing the comments on UFC Tonight on Wednesday.

“What is he talking about? The champ is here? The champ is right here in Los Angeles in this chair. He lost the belt when he ran that pregnant lady over and when he tested positive for steroids. You’re no champion. Sign the damn contract. Enough with these tweets.”

Cormier seems to be embracing the pro-wrestling style trash talk the fans have forced out of him.

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VIDEO STEW

Plenty of vids from UFC Tonight up on Youtube.

TTTHS.

Chael on 211.

DJ on video games. This is how you market him, to gamers.

Lotta opinions on MayGregor.

Here’s a Dave Branch fight to watch for those of you who haven’t seen the newest UFC PPV star.

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LISTEN UP

Bushido Talk. 211 discussion and talking about old fighters coming back.

Heavy Hands. Breakdowns of the main and co-main event from the weekend.

Jordan Breen Show. 211 preview and Jake Shield’s career discussion.

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SOCIAL MEDIA BOUILLABAISSE

Still short a belt.

Sucks.

Respect the effort.

Great thing.

Jorge.

Great fight.

So many fighters being helpful yesterday.

HAHAHAHAHA. I’m not sure Bisping knows, wants, or believes the GSP fight is no more.

Yeah. All 3 of them.

Wow. 1 out of 4 isn’t even great in baseball terms.

Champ in 2018.

Oh shit. Conor giving JJ the bump.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Dana said a lot of things yesterday. You know what that means. By this afternoon, we will have Bisping vs. GSP for the belt confirmed and Anderson vs. Yoel for an interim title this summer.

That’s all for today folks. Have a good one and see y’all tomorrow.

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