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Like a pack of vultures circling around a limping wildebeest, we’ve all been keeping a close eye lately on Jon Jones and Rashad Evans, and the circumstances that may or may not be driving a wedge through their formerly rock-solid friendship. During a conference call earlier today for UFC 128, Jones’s amiable personality hardened up for a moment when a reporter asked him — for the last time — about he and Evans potentially fighting each other in the future. Here’s what Bones had to say:
“With all due respect to you as a reporter — and I want to make it clear to all the other reporters — but I absolutely hate when people mention Rashad Evans, especially throughout this training camp. He’s a friend of mine, but I’m fighting Mauricio “Shogun”, one of the best fighters that’s been around for a long time, and for people to even be mentioning Rashad Evans right now, I think it’s ludicrous.
Rashad is not in my mind, he’s not in my being. He has absolutely zero to do with my heart and who I am right now. Right now it’s me versus Jon Jones, and I’m beating all the weakness out of myself, beating all the give-up out of myself, I’m beating the lack of cardio, I’m beating the lack of confidence — any sign of weakness that’s in my heart, I’m getting rid of it. The fact that people are bringing [up] Rashad, it almost angers me. This guy has nothing to do with Shogun, and I think from here on out I won’t even answer a question about Rashad…
Rashad’s my friend, he’s my boy, but I definitely won’t be thinking about Rashad at all throughout this fight. If anyone I’ll be bringing with me, it’s God. I’ll be bringing God with me and the faces and images of all my training partners and my coaches. I’ll draw from all of them. You know, there’s a quote that says you’re only as good as the people you’re around, and Rashad being one of them, but I have a lot of people outside of him who I can draw energy and power from, and they’ll all be with me.”
We’re going to respect Jones’s wishes and lay off the hurtful speculation, at least until after the fight. Besides, there are a lot of other notable MMA BFFs whose friendship might be on the rocks. For example, did you know that Cain Velasquez secretly blames Ryan Bader for the sudden loss of his formerly luxurious hair? More on that story, as soon as we finish sniffing the rest of this glue…
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commentsthank you for putting down the bible ( B is for bullshit) for a minute and making sense. You made me think.
@rwilsonr I'll tweet your ass so hard you'll be spitting yellow feathers out your mouth for a month.
I'm with on the whole tweet thing. I just realized he didn't just say God is Good ,but said God is Good to me. That is a bit insensitive but contrary to what many try to portray, christians aren't perfect nor is anyone on this earth. As a person of faith I would say that it is much better to TRY and be a good christian and fail than to not try at all. Still the more I think about his comment the more assholeish it seems.
Damn! Now I used the word tweet. This is so embarrassing...
" Thanking God in no way says God favors me over anyone else...."
That is exactly mine and a few other's point. I think that is exactly how he comes across. His tweet ( I can't believe I just used the fucking word tweet , I hate that shit so much ) after the car accident was a perfect example. " God is good to me! Forget about that bitch in the other car that got all jacked up , I'm feeling great !"
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It's not the thanking god part which is nauseating, lots of fighters do that. It's the stench of entitlement and self absorption that he emits whenever he opens his mouth.
Just saying there are a number of people who immediately dislike someone at the mention of God or Jesus, and I think if you look back you'll find that this was there with Jones long before the car crash. In fact the car crash seems like more of an after the fact justification of what a lot of people already felt, and not the impetus for it with Jones. I think some people mistake thanking God or Jesus after a fight for the fighter thinking that God was helping them win. In most cases the fighter is just thanking the strength that they draw from their faith in God. I honestly don't get what that's like, since I don't really have that belief system, but I'm not offended that they do, nor do I feel the need to think I'm superior to them (and tell everybody about it) because I don't believe that. Like I said, I just prefer to let people believe what they want, especially in esoteric concepts like existence, where atheists get as tripped up as anybody in the certainty of their beliefs. As long as it isn't hurting me, I couldn't care if he thanks God, Thor, Cthulhu, or Darwin for his helping him win.
And bones is drawing all the hate because he Is fake. He has a pr rep forming some bull marketable image and everytime he speaks without a prepared answer every ounce of his arrogant dickness flies right out. Been saying it for 2 years now.
Atheism is not a religion, though it is a belief. Futhermore, there is no real evidence for God, which is why religious believers have 'faith'. That is not a knock on religion, I believe that having faith is the point. There is vast evidence that a world can exist without God, but no direct evidence that God does not exist. Of course there is no evidence that a lot of things don't exist, like the famous 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' example.
I don't think it is necessarily the praising of God that people have a problem with in the case of Jon Jones. I think it is the self-absorbed nature of his praising. For example, when he had a car crash he exclaimed 'God is good' with no mention of the lady he crashed into. When asked, he said she was taken off on a stretcher and he doesn't know how she is doing. He praises God when good shit happens to him and cares little for those around him, which isn't very Christian anyway.
Jones you are bum, you always were a bum, and your a cheating, chaotic bum. You don't deserve your wins, and now you will finally be fighting someone who doesn't care how fucking spastic you fight.
I hope we get a great knock out face, just like your butthole buddy rashad.
We should all be intelligent enough to realize that atheism is a religion - there's as much evidence to prove the existence of God as there is to disprove it. If you say you don't have religion, that means you're agnostic.
All that said, it's always kind of funny when people thank God for their success, even though the people they've beaten out are often of the same faith. It presupposes that God loves one more than the other guy to give such thanks. I think that's what many are responding to when they get negative on the topic.
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