Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones turned a reality-show argument into another fight over the 2017 rematch that still splits their rivalry in half. On ALF Reality 3, Cormier brought up the failed steroid test, and Jones answered with the head kick that still hangs over the whole thing.
Jones first beat Cormier by unanimous decision at UFC 182 in January 2015, handing Cormier his first professional MMA loss. They last fought at UFC 214 on July 29, 2017, in Anaheim, where Jones stopped Cormier in the third round with a head kick and follow-up punches before the result was changed to a no contest after a failed steroid test for a turinabol metabolite.
They never had a UFC trilogy. Cormier later moved back to heavyweight, won the UFC heavyweight title, and retired in 2020 after his series with Stipe Miocic. Jones eventually moved up, won the vacant heavyweight belt in 2023, and has since stayed tied to comeback talk, including the UFC White House card discussion that left him on the outside looking in.
That is the current backdrop. Jones is no longer just arguing with Cormier about old business. He is also trying to keep himself in the mix for whatever comes next, while Cormier is coaching against him on ALF Reality and still needling the one result Jones cannot fully own on paper.
“How can Daniel suggest that someone can beat me when he couldn’t?” Jones asked. “Listen,” Cormier responded. “200cm height, eight years youth difference, still so insecure that he stuck a needle in his a–… Eight years younger!”
Watch the exchange below:
Cormier Keeps Bringing the Old Receipt
Cormier also joked that Jones did not handle the injection himself and instead brought up veteran manager Abe Kawa. The back-and-forth then shifted to the translation inside the room, with Cormier arguing that Jones’ insults were reaching the fighters while his own shots were not.
“Everything you say to insult me, they translate,” Cormier said. Jones answered, “one head kick.” Cormier fired back, “I insult you, they don’t even f—ing translate! He won’t let them translate.”
Jones went straight back to the finish, saying he had warned Cormier about that head kick long before the rematch. Cormier brushed it off as luck.
“a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.”
Jones then pointed toward steroid use more broadly in the room before separating the failed test from the strike that ended the fight.
“steroids don’t help you to protect against a head kick one year before it happens.”
Cormier has the official result on his side because the rematch is not a Jones win anymore. Jones has the replay, and the replay is brutal. That is why the argument keeps circling the same two points: the lab result and the kick.
What comes next depends on whether Jones gets a real fight booked after the White House snub and renewed comeback talk. Until then, ALF Reality has given him and Cormier another stage, and neither man seems interested in pretending the old beef is finished.
