"I think if he wants to fight, I would let him fight because for as much as mixed martial arts is a global sport, and it's a sport that everybody loves, we support people from all around the world but at the end of the day we're fighting at the White House. You want American people that can win at the end of the night."
"Noche UFC last weekend had six Mexican-born fighters, they won all six fights. They had three American fighters of Mexican descent and they all won. It felt good for the people leaving the arena that night because the people they went to support had all found success. Imagine if we're on the White House lawn and the Americans aren't winning fights. That can happen."
Daniel Cormier endorsed Jon Jones competing on next summer's UFC White House card and urged Dana White to allow it. Cormier acknowledged their long-standing rivalry and Jones’s 2017 positive test that led to UFC 214’s head-kick KO being overturned to a no contest while Cormier retained the light heavyweight title. Cormier noted Jones re-entered the drug testing pool after announcing retirement and argued the White House event should feature American winners. Cormier compared potential patriotic celebration to Noche UFC and contrasted Dana White’s openness to Conor McGregor with his reluctance toward Jones.
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