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Cormier not on friendly terms with Jones at ESPYs, says it was his dream to beat him (twice)

Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones were both in attendance at Wednesday’s ESPY awards and, as you can imagine, the two fighters weren’t exactly smiles and handshakes.

Speaking to TMZ Sports in a recent interview, ‘DC’ detailed his brief encounter with Jones and said there was no hand shake or conversation with his arch rival.

“No, we’re not friendly,” Cormier said when asked if he shook hands with Jones in the hotel.

Cormier, the reigning heavyweight champion, failed to usurp Jones of the light heavyweight title on two separate occasions at UFC 182 and UFC 214 but the latter result — originally a KO win for Jones — was overturned to a No Contest (NC) after ‘Bones’ tested positive for performance-enhancing substances (PEDs).