Light heavyweight Cormier prevails

only after Jones was stripped of it in early 2015 when he was suspended by the UFC following his involvement in a hit-and-run accident in Albuquerque, N.M.

Jones had successfully defended his title eight times through 2013. But he's fought just three times over the past four years.

He had joked that he would confront Cormier in the cage but stayed in his seat and hung out with several members of the Buffalo Bills

“I'm not going in that cage. I'll leave that man alone. Let him enjoy his night,” Jones said. “I want to talk to my business partners, talk to the UFC and see what they want to do.”

After Cormier's interview was over, he started pointing at Jones, who was seated in the front row. Cormier began yelling at Jones, which was inaudible over the roar of the crowd. Jones looked up and smiled. Then Cormier said something and smiled, too, before walking back the other way.

Cormier's lone loss in a 19-fight MMA career came against Jones in 2015.

Cormier edged Johnson at UFC 187 in 2015 by submission, and he won with a rear naked choke in the second round at the KeyBank Center.

The 33-year-old Johnson said he was moving on an unspecified non-MMA venture.

“I'm tired of getting punched,” he said.

Gegard Mousasi stopped Chris Weidman by TKO in the second round of a confusing conclusion to a middleweight bout. Mousasi connected with two knees to the right side of Weidman's head that stunned the former champion and led to a stoppage.