Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos LOS ANGELES – Interim UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has provided a little background on his manager’s recent request to have veteran MMA referee “Big” John McCarthy blocked from overseeing his title unifier with champ Daniel Cormier at UFC 200. Jones (22-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC), who co-headlines the July 9 pay-per-view opposite Cormier (17-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, was short on details about his problem with McCarthy, but said it amounted to “the accumulation of some things that were happening through some fights, and just our personal interactions,” adding, “I would prefer any other referee but him.” “I really don’t want to get into it too deeply,” Jones told MMAjunkie during a media day in Los Angeles. “I’ll just say, based on some interactions that I’ve had with him, I don’t really feel as if – I just feel it would be something that is, energy that isn’t necessarily the best in there, and to him, it’s just refereeing a fight.
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