Daniel Cormier couldn’t help but feel a twinge of regret as he watched the UFC 197 main event from cageside as a guest analyst.
While Jon Jones was successful in his bid to claim interim light heavyweight gold against Ovince St. Preux at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night, he wasn’t nearly as dominant as expected. Instead, it took the Jackson-Wink representative a full five rounds to dispatch OSP.
Even though it was a clear-cut unanimous decision for Jones, it did little to strike fear into Cormier, who claimed the vacant 205-pound crown during his rival’s indefinite suspension from the UFC.