“There Is No Argument”: Snubbing Athletes Like Jamal Murray, Daniel Cormier Makes a “Case” for Jon Jones To Win the ESPN Comeback Athlete of the Year Award, Days After Questioning His ESPY Nomination

All eyes were on the boards when ESPN announced the nominees for the prestigious ESPY Awards. While the UFC world was excited after the nomination of Jon Jones, Islam Makhachev, Leon Edwards, and Amanda Nunes, the former heavyweight champion, Daniel Cormier, was not pleased. DC seemed to believe that Jones didn’t deserve to be nominated for the Best UFC Fighter. However, his opinion about Jones claiming the mantle of the Best Comeback Athlete was completely different.

DC recently revealed the reasons why he came to believe that no one deserved the award more than ‘Bones’. He even snubbed entities like Jamal Murray and Alyssa Thomas. Jones’ comeback after years to become the UFC heavyweight champion seemed enough for DC to award him his vote of confidence.

Daniel Cormier reasons why Jon Jones should get the ESPY Award

DC took to his YouTube channel and expressed his views on the Best Comeback Athlete nominees for ESPY 2023. He previously dismissed Jones’ nomination as the Best UFC Fighter. DC revealed that there was no other athlete who deserves the title of Best Comeback Athlete more than Jones.

DC said, “But in my mind, there is no argument. He became the heavyweight champion of the world! I would think that becoming the heavyweight champion of the world in that fashion would weigh more than recovering from very, very serious injuries. But when you came back, you didn’t have to fight one of the scariest men in the world, in the middle of the Octagon, one on one.”

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Cormier claimed that all the other names had fantastic comebacks. However, the fact that Jones became the heavyweight champion outweighed every other name. He was particularly impressed by Jones’ absolute victory over Ciryl Gane, back at UFC 285.

Cormier disapproves of the nominations for Best UFC Fighter

Even though he believes that Jones demonstrated the best comeback of the year, Cormier didn’t think that he deserved to be nominated as the Best UFC Fighter. DC claimed that Makhachev’s victory over Charles Oliveira and Alexander Volkanovski was much greater than Jones’ single victory after his comeback.

Furthermore, the UFC commentator believed that Jones was in the list just because he was the biggest star. He seemed to believe that there were other UFC contenders who deserved to be on the list more than ‘Bones’. 

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