Rashad: "DC Should Retire if he Fails to Beat Jones"

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If UFC 197 didn’t have big enough stakes in pitting the consensus pound-for-pound best Jon Jones against current light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, one of them could be headed off into the gloaming when it’s all said and done.

At least, that’s how former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans sees it. Evans, who faces Glover Teixeira a week before UFC 197, says that if the 36-year old Cormier loses his rematch against Jones on April 23 — thus going to 0-2 in the rivalry — that it might be time for "DC" to walk away from fighting.

"I think that DC definitely can [win]," he told Ariel Helwani during an interview on The MMA Hour. "He definitely can. You know, DC, he seems different this time around. He seems different this time mentally speaking. Honestly speaking, this is a fight that DC…he has to win. Like, if DC doesn’t win this fight, there really — he would have to retire if he doesn’t win this fight."

Evans faced Jones at UFC 145 back in April 2012, dropping a unanimous decision. He was supposed to face Cormier at UFC 170, but had to pull out of the event just 10 days beforehand with a leg injury, thus giving way to Patrick Cummins.

Still, though Evans thinks Cormier can beat Jones the second time around, he believes that a second loss against "Bones" would signal the end.

"It’s like, what does he do then?" Evans said. "Does he try to face Jon again for the third time? Once you take away a man’s desire to be the best -- or he knows that he can’t be the best -- then in a sense, you just kill that man off. So if he loses this fight, Jon would have killed him off. There’s no reason. The competitive grind would be gone."

When it was brought up that perhaps Cormier would simply make a return to heavyweight, where he went 13-0 before switching weight classes to avoid a confrontation with his AKA training partner (and then heavyweight champ) Cain Velasquez, Cormier said anything’s possible.

"Maybe, maybe," he said. "Maybe so. I just don’t think that DC, being so successful with the FOX gig and stuff like that, I don’t think the desire to put his body through it will outweigh the life that he could have if he didn’t do it."
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I agree, DC won't get 3rd crack at Jones if he loses this one, but with win i believe they will make another rematch (trilogy with JJ)
 
Yeah, I mean, it's not like DC can't go up to heavyweight...

Lol
 
Sounds like he doesn't want to face DC
 
Weird, since I think Rashad should have retired for not being able to get past Bader.
 
WUT? Rashad should have retired before I started watching UFC. DC can easily go to heavyweight after win/loss to jones. Cain will retire his next fight if he gets demolished.
 
sherdog - 'rashad, you suck you should have retired after xxxxxxx'

we all saw it coming
 
DC can go give HW a try before retiring ( As long as Jon doesn't decide to go there as well).
 
Pssssh.

That's ridiculous.

Look at Miesha: even though Honda won the first 2 convincingly, there' a good chance they will have a trilogy.

There have been a number of trilogies made where the one person won the first two matches.
 
Sounds like something Reshard would say
 
Rashid needs 100% focus on Glover. Thts a terrible match up for Shad
 
DC just got Shadface'd

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Should've retired after Jones left him in a puddle of tears the first time.
 
Naw, but DC does seem to be on the verge of a mental breakdown if he loses

I know he has overcome a million times worse than an mma loss in his life, but he's not showing a a good look in the league to this fight
 
yeah not like he could move back up

not like he is undefeated at HW or anything
 
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