Jon Jones popularitet har under den senaste tiden varit en bergochdalbana, då han hamnat i en hel del blåsväder utanför oktogonen. Här förklarar Chael Sonnen varför det enligt honom är svårt att ställa sig bakom Jones, och detta hade han att säga via ”Three Amigos Podcast”:
Even with that terrible performance Jon Jones just had, I don’t know anybody that can beat him. As bad as he just looked, I don’t know anybody that could beat him. He’s that much better than the rest. We can sit around and go, ‘What a bad performance,’ and it was. It was terrible. I still don’t know anyone that could beat the guy. That’s how good he’s gotten.
He’s just annoying as hell. I mean, that’s the tough part about Jon. You have to deal with this level of ridiculousness. The whole thing’s terrible. He comes to the ring, he hugs his entire family, which is really cool to see, but out of nowhere, he drops this bombshell after the fight that his mother had just gone through something and had just lost her leg. That’s terrible and it breaks your heart, but the other part of you is going, ‘But I just saw you and your whole family there. Why is no one home with Mom?’
You know, you can’t help but think that. He cuts this interview saying that this just happened like two days before, and the whole damned family is at the fight! You’re just scratching your head here thinking, ‘Man, the inmates are running the asylum.’ It’s just a level of ridiculousness…it’s insane. It was just the craziest interview. Your heart is breaking for his mom, but you’re thinking, ‘Man, what are you doing in the cage? Why are you all there?’
Then he wonders why nobody can get behind him. He shows up to the press conference acting like a fool. He comes in trying to take over the press conference like everybody was supposed to be happy for him that he won. He didn’t realize that they were looking at the drunken coke addict champ, with all the talent in the world, that just can’t get it straight.
When you have that level of arrogance, it’s tough to get behind him. Then sure enough, you’ve got the press, ‘Ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra,’ they’re really going for it. Man, this wouldn’t have happened back in my day. We’d have grabbed a guy like this in the back and straightened him out. We just would have.
Jon besegrade senast Ovince St-Preux via ett enhälligt domslut, och härnäst möter han titelhållaren Daniel Cormier under UFC 200 den 9 juli.
