UFC legend who rivaled Jon Jones slams him over Aspinall controversy

Daniel Cormier says he would have '1000-percent' fought Tom Aspinall

Fast forward eight years from their rivalry, Jones is the heavyweight champion, and fans are slamming his avoidance of the interim champion Tom Aspinall.

'Bones' maintains one title defense in over 800 days, and Aspinall has been waiting for his opportunity for well over 500 days, defending it in the process.

Taking to YouTube, Cormier believes he'd have done a better job of being the heavyweight champion if he were in Jones' position right now.

"You're talking about me, you're talking about Francis [Ngannou], you're talking about Chael [Sonnen] and almost ignoring the right thing," Cormier declared.

". . . I can tell you guys on good authority, if I was still fighting today and I was still the heavyweight champion, and Tom Aspinall was the No. 1 contender, I would've already fought him. One thousand percent. . . . I mean this dude, Jon Jones... still talking? Come on."

There's no doubting Cormier, who dared to be great on many occasions in his fighting career.

'DC' won the Strikeforce heavyweight tournament opposite Josh Barnett, and fought names like Frank Mir, Roy Nelson, Dan Henderson, Jones (x2), Anthony Johnson (x2), Alexander Gustafsson, Anderson Silva, Volkan Oezdemir, Stipe Miocic (x3), and Derrick Lewis.