(What a nice-looking young man.)
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones spends a lot of time on twitter. These days, it takes a lot of guts for him to do so.
When would be-challenger Dan Henderson pulled out of his scheduled UFC 151 engagement with the champ and Jones turned down a short-notice replacement fight with Chael Sonnen, Jones was thrown under the bus by UFC President Dana White and fighters and fans alike joined in on the hate-a-thon, bashing Jones in interviews and on twitter. Jones has been all over the map since then.
First, he sequestered himself away with no comments, then he was defensive. Eventually he was apologetic. Last night he jokingly set on blaming Henderson on Twitter for their not fighting last night as he had planned.
When a fan tweeted Saturday that thanks to Jones, “he had no plans tonight,” Jones retorted with a Hemingway reference. “Thanks to the old man and his knee I don’t either,” Jones replied.
See what he did there? If I hadn’t recently spent an hour and a half in a Barnes and Noble reading “The Old Man And The Sea,” without buying it afterwards, I might not have. Thankfully I did, and was ready for Jones’ great tweet. Fate.
On its face, the tweet just seems like another in a growing series of public relations gaffes for Jones. However, Jones seems to be disproportionately punished for honesty that, in other athletes, we find refreshing and endearing.
Jones might have too little of a filter, be too good, too young and too black, all at the same time. Or perhaps he just doesn’t have enough history and goodwill with fans yet to get away with that stuff.
I for one, have always smiled when I’ve heard Henderson mock an opponent, brag on himself or promise to beat the crap out of someone. Jones doing the same seems to rub me the wrong way off the bat. What’s up with that?
In any case, back to Jones blaming Henderson. It may seem ridiculous at first.
After all, no one is questioning the legitimacy of Henderson’s MCL injury. There is no reason that he should have felt compelled to fight through that.
But if he had, he wouldn’t have been the first. Chuck Liddell beat Tito Ortiz with a torn ACL and we didn’t find out about the injury until afterwards.
No one made Henderson wait a few weeks to tell the UFC about his injury, either. When he did, there was little time for them to find a logical replacement.
When Jones decided not to fight Sonnen on a week’s notice, the UFC had no other good options, in part because they hadn’t do their due diligence in checking with all their superstars who might have been willing to step in and save the event and decided to shut down their otherwise weak (in terms of marketability) event. The situation stunk.
Looks like Jones is no longer happy taking all of the blame for it. What do you say, ‘taters?
Do you want to see Jones offer a mea culpa (one in which he doesn’t compare himself to a crucified Messiah), or do you want to see him continue to embrace his villain role?
If he goes the villain route, who else could he insult on twitter to get there?
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oh okay this is good you're actually trying to explain yourselves now, you've moved on from the adolescent insults, now you're playing my game, very obedient, good boy. oh, so jon jones is a liar! why? when did he lie? oh so he didn't predict his own dui? that just isn't what lying is... that doesn't qualify as lying i doubt anyone predicts themselves getting a dui.
this is a good example of how there IS a double standard and how he IS being treated unfairly. sonnen did much worse illegal shit and you don't criticize him for it, jones gets a DUI and the sky is fucking falling. That's not consistent, that's holding jones to a different standard. that's just one example, but ones all i need, so we have firmly established jones IS treated unfairly and heald to a different standard, and i am right and you are wrong, again. better get used to it, im noticing a pattern here.
what else? oh hes hypocritical? wanna talk about being hypocritical. how about you saying i write too much on here and then writing youre own multiple long responses. look how many fucking times you have posted just since last night dude. youre the hypocrite. oh or saying i take this too seriously. i take this too seriously?????? listen stupid you dont even know me you dont even know if im being serious, this is the internet dude, i could be a fucking troll just laughing at you for all you know. on some levels that basically is what im doing. im typing this from my fucking iphone to pass the time at work, that's the only time i ever have to dick around on the internet because im so busy with school and my social life. think youre the one who takes shit too serious mr. hypocrite.
oh and mocking me for going to college. isn't that just the epitome of anti-intellects, patronizing someone for attending a university. all i should expect i guess. actually hating someone for being in a good school is kind of like hating a guy because hes really great at fighting. hating on peoples qualitys and acting like theyre bad things, typical dumb hater behavior.
and yeah i called jones handsome. hes a good looking dude. better looking than most fighters, probably better looking thant you, probably part of the reason you REALLY hate him, it kills you subconsciously. fyi that doesn't make me gay to say that. you must be really uncomfortable with yourself. i could also be a girl for all you fucking know stupid. very narrow minded.
it really is funny to watch the hater, watching you grasp at straws and nitpick away to try to justify your hate. sitting there behind your computer screen writing how you hate so much this guy that you dont even know. sad man, you look ugly right now. hes 25 years old and on a huge stage, all things considered hes doing really well. his overall behavior has been really impressive. enjoy it man, be happy for him.
anyway i dont think theres much more to say, my dude jones pretty much owned all your asses in the helwani interview. WAR BONES. keep hatin'.