JON JONES VS. DANIEL CORMIER IS OFFICIAL FOR UFC 214
Las Vegas, NV (May 12th, 2017)– Jon Jones (22-1) will make his anticipated return to the Octagon in the main event of UFC 214, where he will will challenge reigning champion Daniel Cormier (19-1) for the UFC light heavyweight title. The bout was first reported to be in the works by MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani and just announced officially at the UFC Summer Kickoff Press Conference. The card goes down on July 29 in Anaheim, California.
Jones will enter this fight for the first time since April of 2016. Originally this most recent fight was supposed to pit him against the champ Cormier. When Cormier was forced out of the fight an injury, however, Jones battled Ovince St. Preux for the interim , winning the fight with an unanimous decision.
Cormier, meanwhile, was last seen in the cage in early April, when he defended his title with a second-round submission victory of Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. In his next most recent fight, which occurred in July of 2016, he was originally expected to fight Jon Jones, but ultimately fought and defeated Anderson Silva in a last-minute non-title fight after Jones was forced off the card after failing a drug test for an anti estrogen supplement called clomiphene . Before defeating Silva, Cormier defended his title with a hard-fought decision defeat of Alexander Gustafsson, and won the title Jones had left vacant with a submission defeat of Rumble.
Jones and Cormier have fought once before, back in January of 2015. On that night, Jones successfully defended the title with a unanimous decision, but was stripped shortly thereafter after multiple legal issues outside the cage.
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