Sure, you know my goal is to be considered the best fighter in the light heavyweight division. Jones sends shock waves through the MMA community when he tells the world he would fight Rashad Evans if asked. This is a departure, as Jackson-Winkeljohn fighters are generally adamant they won't compete against each other in the cage.
In fact, Evans had just told Dave Farra that he wouldn't fight Jones. If Jon wins the title I got to sit down with the team and decide what to do. The theoretical fight between Jones and Evans suddenly looked very real. On the very day Jones wins the title, Evans announces a split with coach Greg Jackson, citing an unhappiness in Jackson's decision not to corner him against Jones.
In an angry interview with Duane Finley , Evans blames his former coach for creating an untenable situation:. I met Jon Jones and he was a very nice and very sweet kid, so eventually I said You freaking spilled the milk.
Evans relocated to Florida to train at Imperial Athletics, eventually becoming a key cog in a fight team known as the "Blackzilians. Jones pulls out of a possible title fight against Evans due to an injured thumb. Evans tells the world he thinks the injury is fake and tension builds between the two men. They almost have an impromptu fight in Las Vegas and welterweight champion Georges St.
Pierre has to play peacemaker. Evans, not willing to wait for a title shot against Jones, takes on Tito Ortiz in August. Fueling speculation that he is playing mind games, Jones decides not to have surgery on his injured thumb. Days after Rashad's-fight is announced, Jones signs to fight Quinton Jackson. Evans takes to Twitter to call Jones out :. If I'm lying, I'm dying! He so fake he fake surgeries!! Now that's fake! There was trash talk leading up to the fight, but none of it seemed to make Jones as mad as having to look at Evans across the cage.
Immediately following his win, Jones was confronted by Evans. A similar incident happened after his title win over Rua and Jones was not happy. It's been more than a year in the making, but the Jones vs.
There's been a lot of stuff [said by] Rashad. Rashad thinks that I'm hatin' him or whatever the deal is. I don't. The reality is — I said it on your show the last time I talked to you — he hasn't known Jon Jones that long.
To call him a brother and this and that…I really believe that…and Rashad didn't tell me this. Jon Jones didn't tell me this. This is just something that I came up with in my head. You look throughout the history of boxing, guys used to have to spar with each other all the time and the guys who came in as sparring partners eventually became world champions some day. You have to train with other people.
You have to train with the best. It's a fact. You just don't become such "close friends" that you don't want to fight each other. It's [expletive]. Evans should straight out call for the winner regardless of training camps and "friendships. I'd wanna fight him too. But now he's gotta sit around, he's gotta wait and see what happens with these two, he's gotta wait to see who wins — do they come out percent or are they injured and have to wait a little while or do they want to fight again?
He's put himself into a bad position and that's what I was saying about him: He's boxed himself into this corner. You can watch UFC right here on Yahoo! Quotes via Cage Potato. A former NBA player has issued an apology after his daughter was seen at a youth basketball game in Orange County throwing a vicious sucker punch that left another girl with a concussion. After two and a half years with the 49ers and zero games played, Jalen Hurd has been released. The 49ers announced today that they have released Hurd, who had been on injured reserve.
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Once good friends-turned arch rivals, their relationship provided a fitting story for a grudge match at UFC It was 'Bones' who got the better of the two, cruising to a unanimous decision victory to retain his light heavyweight title for the third time.
Since then, Jones catapulted to the top of the rankings as the pound-for-pound 1, while Evan's skills and motivation slowly deteriorated over time. In Evans' last outing, the Ultimate Fighter Season 2 heavyweight winner was knocked out in the first round by Glover Teixeira , which prompted Jones to send his former teammate some encouraging words on Instagram since deleted.
Jones opened up about his history with Evans at a UFC media scrum, and said he holds no ill will towards the year-old. Me and Rashad had really great moments before our drama started and you know those moments, I think me and him will both remember those good times.
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