UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones suffered an ankle injury in training earlier this week, and cannot fight Daniel Cormier at UFC 178 on September 27. The fight has now been rescheduled to UFC 182 on January 3.
"It's very disappointing," Cormier told Ariel Helwani for MMAFighting. "I started to train very hard. It's a little discouraging, but now I have time to get completely healthy. I don't know how hurt Jon is but we have to remember that I took this fight with a pre-existing injury. I could have fought through it, I just wish he would have done the same."
There is no word yet on what the new main event for UFC 178 will be.
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