Jon Jones Reveals His Biggest Rival, And It’s Not Daniel Cormier

The UFC light heavyweight title that Daniel Cormier wears strapped across his waist will be on the line, when he meets his longtime rival Jon Jones in the main even of UFC 200 this July.

Jones has been the biggest hurdle in the former Olympian’s mixed martial arts (MMA) career, as the only blemish on his record comes at the hands of ‘Bones’ following their initial meeting at UFC 182.

While the two men obviously have a tendency to get under one another’s skin, the former 205-pound king Jones recently reveled to FOX Sports that ‘DC’ actually isn’t the biggest rival he’s come across throughout his impressive career:

“”I think the performance I’m most happy with is when I beat Rashad Evans,” Jones said. “Rashad Evans was a guy who knew me personally, trained with me, and I think he was 15-1 when we fought.

He had only ever lost to Lyoto Machida. He was a winner. He knocked out Chuck Liddell. He was just a bad ass. I loved that I made that fight look one-sided — that’s the fight I’m most proud of.

That rivalry was almost equal to Daniel Cormier, actually a bit more personal. The beef was more real. Daniel Cormier, our beef is childish.”

Jones also claimed that Cormier isn’t even the toughest fight he’s had in his eight-year UFC career, but rather the man who took him into deep waters at UFC 165, Alexander Gustafsson:

“When it comes to my actual toughest fight, it was Alexander Gustafsson. Gustafsson dazed me at one point in the fight. He had me bleeding, he actually made me go to the hospital after the fight,” Jones said.

“”Daniel Cormier, his fight to me was no tougher than the Glover Teixeira fight. First three rounds were competitive, and then after that I ran away with the victory.