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More details continue to emerge from Monday’s press conference brawl between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier.
Yesterday, a rumor was making its way around the UFC community that Daniel Cormier lost his shoe in the scuffle with Jones and that a fan who picked it up was shopping it around on eBay. That was not the case as a UFC PR rep reportedly picked up the shoe and gave it back to Cormier immediately after the fight.
MMAFighting.com does confirm, however, that DC did lose his cellphone and that a fan quickly returned it.
“My cell phone went flying out of my pocket,” Cormier told MMAFighting.com in his VIP dressing room at Club Nokia before Tuesday’s UFC 178 fan question-and-answer session. “And when it was over, I couldn’t find it. What ended up happening was, my manager called the number, and he didn’t let on that it was my phone. He called, the fan who picked the phone up answered it, and my manager just said ‘this is an important phone and I need to have it back.’ The fan was cool, he returned it, so it all worked out.”
The news wasn’t so good for the light heavyweight champion as Jones’ sunglasses were broken because of the skirmish.
“I got my sunglasses back, but they were broken, man,” Jones said in his dressing room before the event. “They’re done. It’s a good thing I brought two pairs with me.”
The most interesting revelation from Monday’s fight didn’t even include its participants as UFC 178 co-main eventer Dustin Poirier said that he was worried about his opponent Conor McGregor jumping him in the chaos.
“When it happened, it took me a second to realize that this was something serious going on,” Poirier said. “Then I was kind of on the outside of the whole thing. Then finally, I went and looked to find a wall or something I could put my back up against, just in case Conor tried to start anything and or come up from behind. I’m not saying he would have, it’s just in those type of situations, you never know.”
McGregor didn’t really think that the fight was a big deal but squarely blamed Cormier for the incident.
“I took a step back,” McGregor told MMAFighting.com. “In my head I was commentating on the situation. The fans were there, it was a great occasion. This the fight game, I don’t give a s–.You don’t grab a guy’s throat. It’s one thing head to head, whatever, but you grab a guy’s throat, it’s on. If someone had grabbed my throat, I would have broken his jaw.”
