“My biggest regret is my performance in the rematch with Jon Jones. I was in shape, fought well, then he kicked me in the body, remember? But I stood firm. Then he tried to land a head kick—I blocked it. And then I felt so confident that I lost focus. I started showing off, started talking to him—doing all the things that are not at all typical of me.
I have always been incredibly focused. That was my secret... When I entered the cage, all my thoughts were only about the fight. But that time I started clowning around and got kicked in the head,” Cormier said on his podcast.
Let us recall that Jones and Cormier shared the octagon twice. Jon won the first fight by unanimous decision, and the second—by technical knockout. But the result of the rematch was aned due to Jones' positive doping test.