It’s only when the pre-fight staredown goes wrong that you realize how weird a tradition it is in the first place. Here are these two guys – in this case, UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and challenger Daniel Cormier – who are going to fight in Las Vegas next month. Not this week. Not a year from now. We’re talking UFC 178 in late September, which is both far enough away to make the press conference a more obvious piece of theater and yet close enough to the fight that you’d think they’d be able to wait until the appointed day and time before putting their hands on one another. You’d be wrong, apparently.
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