Daniel Cormier cordial with Jon Jones but doubts they would ever train together

Daniel Cormier can't relate to Israel Adesanya and Robert Whittaker's linkup.

Adesanya and Whittaker turned from foes to friends after spending some time training together at City Kickboxing. The former middleweight champions fought each other twice, and Whittaker jokingly admitted he would have ran Adesanya over with a car if he could have during their rivalry.

Cormier is no stranger to feuds, part of arguably the biggest rivalry in UFC history with Jon Jones. And while the pair are now cordial, they never quite fully buried the hatchet – and Cormier can live with that.

"I think it's great. I just don't know if I ever could've did it," Cormier said on "Good Guy/Bad Guy" with Chael Sonnen. "It's tempered, Jones and I. It's not what it used to be. We can honestly be in the same area with each other now and be cordial. It's not what it used to be. Before we would just fight everywhere, whether we were in a bar or a club. No matter where we were, we would try to fight each other, and I'll be honest: That was fun.

"But I don't need that fuzzy feeling. I don't hate that Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield squashed their beef and they're laughing, joking. But if Evander never forgave him for biting his ear off, I wouldn't have had a problem with it. Sometimes rivalries need to live."

Cormier clarifies that Adesanya and Whittaker's history never got as personal as his did with Jones, so it's not quite the same.

"I don't know that those guys had that type of rivalry, and that's why I'm OK with them being friends," Cormier said. "They didn't like each other in the moment because they both wanted the same thing so bad. Once that thing isn't available to either of them right now. Whittaker's not close to a championship.

"Adesanya doesn't seem to be close to a championship. That thing isn't available, the thing that divided them is now kind of off to the side, and they can move past that and kind of be friends and train. Hopefully these guys can revive their careers to where they can go and try chase that thing again, but I like my rivalries to last."

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