Jon Jones inblandning i bilolyckan där en gravid kvinna blivit skadad har blivit mycket omtalad och ledde tills slut att UFC valde att ta titeln inom lätttungvikt ifrån honom. Matt Mitrione tycker att detta var ett bra beslut och i en intervju med ”MMADigest” drog han sig inte för att berätta precis vad han tycker om Jones.
Det här berättade Mitrione:
I understand that mixed martial arts is a baby, right, and it’s still growing. We strive to do good things like drug testing and stuff like this and then you just get a knuckle head – who’s just a remarkable amount of a hypocrite and says so many things – ’I got a bible tattooed on my chest and I’m a great person’ and bla bla bla, and then you’re hitting people when they’re on their way to church and you hit a pregnant woman. You leave your car and you run out then you run back to grab cash and probably some drugs and run off again and don’t even check on the people you hit – it sucks man, it just sucks. It’s such a black eye, it’s a black eye for the sport. I really do feel like Dana White and the UFC did the right thing – it’s a private company and if you acted like a jerk, you’re getting served up for it.
I was speaking to Rashad Evans and a couple of other dudes and Rashad was like, ’y’know, I think it might be a habit for him, like it might be a ritual’. So maybe he was doing it for a while, for a little bit, and now he kinda feels like it’s superstition almost – it was an interesting perspective.
Daniel Cormier har sedan dess blivit den ersätter Jones i matchen mot Anthony Johnson, där de två kommer att slåss om den lediga titeln.
