{"id":38682,"date":"2026-06-06T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Daniel-Cormier-Why-Jon-Jones-wont-wrestle-me-despite-massive-financial-offer-201452"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:44:52","slug":"daniel-cormier-why-jon-jones-wont-wrestle-me-despite-massive-financial-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/daniel-cormier-why-jon-jones-wont-wrestle-me-despite-massive-financial-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Cormier: Why Jon Jones won\u2019t wrestle me despite massive financial offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/daniel-cormier-why-jon-jones-wont-wrestle-me-despite-massive-financial-offer.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Daniel-Cormier-52311\">Daniel<br \/>\nCormier<\/a> believes <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jon-Jones-27944\">Jon Jones<\/a><br \/>\nwon\u2019t wrestle him, even for a seven-figure payday.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier (22-3) and Jones (28-1) starred as rival coaches on the<br \/>\nlast season of ALF Reality, also known as the Russian version of<br \/>\n\u201cThe Ultimate Fighter.\u201d ALF boss Alfredo Auditore recently<br \/>\nannounced that they have almost finalized a wrestling match between<br \/>\nCormier and Jones.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Cormier confirms that they have been approached by ALF regarding a<br \/>\nwrestling match, with a seven-figure payday offered. However, \u201cDC\u201d<br \/>\nbelieves his longtime rival, Jones, won\u2019t wrestle him. According to<br \/>\nCormier, both parties know that he will beat Jones 10-0 in a<br \/>\nwrestling match. Cormier said on social media:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJones and I, that is a 10-0 match every single time. I know it,<br \/>\nand he knows it\u2026 You don\u2019t have to goad me into this wrestling<br \/>\nmatch. I will beat him 10-0 at 47 years old. Here\u2019s the problem &#8212;<br \/>\nI know I\u2019m gonna beat him 10-0, he also knows that I\u2019m going to<br \/>\nbeat him 10-0. That\u2019s why he won\u2019t wrestle me. He won\u2019t do it. The<br \/>\namount of money that has been offered to us to do the wrestling<br \/>\nmatch is seven figures. To wrestle! You\u2019re telling me to wrestle<br \/>\nfor that? I\u2019m in all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Cormier share one of the most intense rivalries in<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> history. Jones defended his<br \/>\nlight heavyweight title against Cormier via a unanimous decision at<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-182-Jones-vs-Cormier-38841\">UFC<br \/>\n182<\/a> in 2015. While Jones knocked out Cormier in their rematch<br \/>\nat <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-214-Cormier-vs-Jones-2-57825\">UFC<br \/>\n214<\/a> in 2017, it was overturned to a no-contest due to \u201cBones\u201d<br \/>\nfailing a drug test.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZN7VpKyzNg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.28378378378378\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier believes Jon Jones won\u2019t wrestle him, even for a seven-figure payday. Cormier (22-3) and Jones (28-1) starred as rival coaches on the last season of ALF Reality, also known as the Russian version of \u201cThe Ultimate Fighter.\u201d ALF boss Alfredo Auditore recently announced that they have almost finalized a wrestling match between Cormier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}