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Daniel Cormier wins light heavyweight title, but Jon Jones' shadow looms large (Yahoo Sports)

LAS VEGAS – Daniel Cormier is now the UFC light heavyweight champion after tapping out Anthony Johnson on Saturday in the third round of their bout in the main event of UFC 187 at the MGM Grand Garden.

Daniel Cormier celebrates after defeating Anthony Johnson at UFC 187. (AP)

But he’s definitely not the best 205-pounder fighter in the world.

That would be one Jonathan Dwight Jones, who decimated Cormier when they met five months earlier at UFC 182. But Jones was suspended indefinitely by the UFC and stripped of his title after an alleged hit-and-run accident last month in Albuquerque, N.