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Published 14:57 5 Mar 2016 GMT
Updated 16:44 5 Mar 2016 GMT
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"Conor is great for the sport. [To the Irish fans in attendance] Okay, calm down, calm down you Irish. "Like I was saying, Conor is great for the sport. He is a magnificent competitor. He is someone I have been watching a lot. I love the way he is doing a lot of things. "He is bringing a lot of notoriety to the sport. We have a lot of celebrities watching us so I'm definitely grateful that Conor is bringing that to the sport. "And, you know, before I was the pound-for-pound number one, I used to look at Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre and I'd tell myself 'One day that is going to be me' and I'd tell myself why I could be that. "So Conor definitely has the right attitude. That's the way he should look at himself, as the pound-for-pound number one. But at the end of the day, it is all an opinion thing. "In my defence, I've won nine world titles so, you know. But I do respect his competitive spirit."Cormier wasn't having that. Booed roundly throughout the media event, he remarked, "I don't agree with the entitled attitude Jon puts off." To a reporter, who asked a follow-up question, Jones said, "Thanks for clarifying. I had no idea what he was saying over all of those boos." https://youtu.be/57ScEXyq0F0?t=35m45s
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