The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Daniel Cormier TV - Conor McGregor AND Jon Jones on the same UFC card in NYC?!

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

Daniel Cormier gives us the inside scoop on why Conor McGregor and Jon Jones might BOTH be fighting in the UFC's November fight card at Madison Square Garden! And don't miss why DC says Tyson Fury has "ZERO CHANCE" at beating Jon "Bones" Jones in a fight. Plus, the latest on the much-anticipated title fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic for the heavyweight championship of the world. #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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day and heard some very interesting things come about. And we spoke about it a little bit on the Monster Energy live stream that we did the other day. I'm hearing Connor McGregor and Michael Chandler is being looked at for New York City. Two things come to mind when I think about that. One, McGregor's back in the Utah test pool, which we all know has to be six months tested before he can actually compete. So May, June, July, August, September, October, November, seven months. Fault within the time frame of him being eligible to. compete against Michael Chandler. That is one area that sticks out. The second most important detail in that is we were supposed to get Jones Meotich in July. Then we heard that they were

targeted in November. So it raises two questions. One, do we get a fight night where Jones and McGregor are both fighting? And if they are, who walks to the octagon last? You would think the heavyweight champion the world does but you got the mega start at this kind of mcgregor after the ultimate fighter so that would be something that would have to be worked on i don't know if you could ever really do that because i don't know if these two guys would be able to work that out but boy would that not be the most amazing card to have those fighters on the same night fighting jones defending his championship against step m eotches and connor mcgregor fighting michael chanelan that's wishful. That's wishful. Let's not get to wishful. Let's get to more realistic, though.

What's realistic is somebody's going to move if that's the case. Both of these guys are targeted Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena. Somebody's going to have to move to the next fight card, which is the end of the year, pay-per-view in December. Both are massive. These are the two, as a guy that's shared on the pay-per-view as a champion for the UFC. I know what fight cards you want to be on. You want to be on December. You want to be on November in Madison Square. You want to be on July in the middle of International Fight Week. You like that very first card at the beginning of the year. You like the Super Bowl card. Remember that old Memorial Day card? They had certain cards that you wanted to be on because generally people tuned in a little bit better.

Somebody's going to have to move, but it's like literally choosing one pit house to the next. These are both two massive paper views for the UFC. But I think what's most important about this whole idea that McGregor may want to go in November is how fast things are going to start to move now. Because you remember for a while, it was when is Connor going to get back in the Utah to pool? When is Connor going to get back in the Eastada pool? When is Connor going to let everybody know that he's ready to compete again? Well, now that he's back in the pool, it seems like they're already targeted a date.

Same thing with Henry Suhudo. When Hiddur and Al Jermaine Sterling were arguing back and forth, it was all just hypotheticals. The moment Hiddle was back in the Uside of testing pool, very quickly did the defunct fight get announced, how soon will we see this fight between Michael Chandler and Conno McGregor announced? And again, what's going on with Stipe Ami Oches and John Jones? We're still kind of at the same place. It's the weirdest thing that we have these two great fighters, two great heavyweights, both seem intense. to fight each other, but we can't get a date.

Nothing's wrong with scheduling a fight early and then having that build all the way to November or to December. Only thing I can see negative in that is that they may, you may look so forward to that big fight down the line that you don't necessarily get into or pay as much attention to the fights that happened right now. I mean, hell, we got Justin Gage in them at the end of July and, That's getting so much talk that you're not really as in tune with. Man, the Nunez's title of defense coming up right now.

And then Volcanowski versus Jaya Rodriguez, which is going to be a tremendous fight on international fighting. McGregor versus Chandler gets the linear ESPN treatment. That's only because of Connor McGregor, because of Connor McGregor and who he is. Michael Chandler, though, seems intent to stop the McGregor comeback. Michael Chandler seems ready to go out there and really make a big statement for himself. But I think that the most interesting thing is that both of these guys would seem to want to fight at Madison Square Garden.

Guys, it's magical. Madison Square Garden really is magical. It really is magical arena to compete in, and I've done it twice. I did it in wrestling. I did it in mixed martial arts. It is really magical to walk the halls of Madison Square and make that walk to the out. or to a wrestling match. So I understand why both wanted.

If you remember, McGregor headline the first Madison Square card card. And everyone told me it was the most raucous environment they have ever been a part of. Well, could you imagine John Jones headlined Madison Square being from New York? It would be amazing. It would be so good to have either of these guys headlining what has become one of the U.S.C.'s premier cards the entire week that surrounds Madison Square just feels bigger. Guys, before I continue, you know,

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One that we have wanted for a long time. Now we got John Jones talking to Tyson Fury, which Dana said, hey, we'll make it happen. Dana said it. We'll make it happen. But now we got those guys talking Tyson Fury and John Jones. And for the record, Tyson Fury in a full-on fight has no chance against him. John Jones. And that's no knock on Fury. In a singular skill set with boxing gloves, Tyson Fear will beat John Jones every day or a week. But if by chance, they ever go into a

full-on fight, Fury has about as much of a chance as the guy walking into a convenience store on the end of your block to beat John Jones in a free fight. It's not going to happen. And this is not even me knocking Tyson Fury. This is me telling you the absolute true. Tyson Fury is the world's best boxer, but the world's best boxer stands such a slight chance to beat these elite mixed martial artists. It's crazy. But that's why you got young guys now doing everything. They do everything. But even as I get distracted here, talking, oh my God, John Jones Tyson Fury, once again, I'm not talking Steve A. Mioch's John Jones. It's exactly what happened whenever Francis and Ghana with John Jones was like the talk of the time and all of a sudden,

it started to shift because we as humans, we have short attention spans and we, oh, there's something that way. I look and I'm gone. We have got to guys, Steve M. Emiotis and John Jones, we've got to make this happen. Otherwise, we're going to miss out on another one. This is too big a fight to let fall by the wayside. So I don't know what's happening right now in the back end. That's not allowed for this to come together. But, it needs to come together for the sake of the heavyweight division because right now we can't afford to have Jones missing for as long as he was last time or even a fraction of that he seemed to be wanting to go right away it's up to now stepe am iotius the challenger to make it happen he's

the champ now dude's the champ you got to kind of find a way to come to terms with the champion of the world we don't want to miss that one though we don't want to miss that one as fans madison square garden is going to be a six fight card regardless but the fact that we have these two guys as our options to headline it means that the most magical nights created in mixed martial arts in the greatest arenas have true potential to exceed what we have already seen we saw conno bdadi alvarez there we saw israel as sonya lose his title to Alex Baheda there. We have seen Michael Chandler go to war with Justin Gatesy there. We saw Michael Chandler go to war with Dustin Poirier there. We have seen some amazing fights

in Madison Square. We saw GSP become the champ. We saw Rose Namibus knock out Yonnie on Jacek. We watched T.J. Dillishaw beat Cody Garber. We have seen so many great title fights in Madison Square. The idea that we have the opportunity to have these two guys wanting the headline, Madison Square tells me, New York is going to be fantastic. And I, for one, am lucky to sit in that chair next to the octagon to call these fights. Guys, thank you once again for joining me. Until next time, tell a friend and tell a friend that I've got a YouTube channel. And I'm dropping knowledge and DC's your boy.

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