LAS VEGAS – The best fighter in the world was nowhere to be found on Saturday when his arch rival claimed the crown he’d put a stranglehold on for the last four years.
Jon Jones was stripped of the UFC’s light heavyweight championship in April and suspended indefinitely after being accused in a hit-and-run accident in Albuquerque, N.M., in which a pregnant woman suffered a broken arm.
With Jones sorting through his problems, Daniel Cormier ascended to his throne by submitting Anthony Johnson in the third round of the main event Saturday at UFC 187 before 12,615 screaming fans at the MGM Grand Garden.