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UFC: More than champion title on the line for Cormier and Jones

Saturday’s title fight between current light heavyweight champion Daniel "DC" Cormier and the former champion, Jon "Bones" Jones, is a spectacle in its own right.

While Cormier has elevated to stardom, Jones has taken the beaten path of sorts after he was involved in a hit-and-run incident in Albuquerque on April 2015, which stripped him of his title. Then in July of 2016 he was banned for a year from competing by USADA after he tested positive for a banned substance.

The two couldn’t have been on more opposite sides of the spectrum, but at the same time, on equal footing entering Saturday’s rubber match.