He’s just trying to focus on a tough champ. Biggest fight of his life and the reporters are asking about Rashad? That’s insulting to Rua if you think about it. Rashad is not part of the equation (for Bones) until Bones takes out Rua. Maybe he doesn’t want to look past Rua(SMART) and doesn’t like the reporters looking past him. All the God talk is lame though. Shut up with that and continue to wreck face please.

love you rwr

I have faith too but I honestly think that after all we know of human history and the extreme variations in source material for what you white redneck biblethumpers think is some holy book is so insulting to even bonobo intelligence that it’s hard to take you seriously at all . It’s just fucking sad.

@Bossnasty
thank 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.

See I could care less about the whole god, car accident thing. I thought it was a great fight with bonner, and not long after it seemed like his controlled interviews were one thing, same question off the cuff another. He is a fake package under presumption of in the cage greatness. Yet in his own words though he is rude and allllll ego. Exactly what I refuse to associate with.

@Waxedpants
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.

@ waxedpants – I totally agree with that view of Jones. Although you make it hard to agree with you when you use words like tweet.
Damn! Now I used the word tweet. This is so embarrassing…

@bossnasty
” 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 !”

prick

Yeah ReX – I tried to get us booked at some of the local clubs but no luck… turns out they thought we were a breakfast band called Hydraulic Omelette Platter.

False humility comes to mind as well. He doesn’t fool me , he’s an arrogant prick with a god sized ego.

@Shaky — I agree

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.

^ “overcomb” – is that a reference to John Danaher?

I’d like to add that every person is responsible for their own relationship with God. Thanking God for blessing you with the tools, and will to win is what a Christian is supposed to do, Give glory to God. Winning just happens to bring that out more than losing. The person who lost has much to be thankful for as well, though his mood and disposition might allow him to see those things at that moment. Thanking God in no way says God favors me over anyone else, if you feel that way then maybe there are some insecurities you need to overcomb.

What I don’t understand is how someone else thanking God pisses off other people. If you don’t believe then watch the fights and go about YOUR business. You are watching him and then want to get mad about his beliefs. It’s not like he’s chasing you down in the streets to force you to listen to him. He isn’t standing at the podium and preaching “You must believe in God”. How does it hurt you in any way for him to thank God?

@ ccman & shaky – like I said, I dislike Jones for his cockiness/arrogance. I think that is likely the source of his religious hypocrisy, although I think the car accident thing might have been a matter of oversight or not thinking the situation through more than out and out hypocrisy.
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.

IMO when a fighter thanks God after a fight he is more thanking God for all the blessing and abilities that God has given him (God given talent maybe)not so much for helping him win the fight. And what if God did help a particular fighter when a fight. It doesnt necessarily mean that God loves one more than the other but that he has different paths for each person. What if God helps Shogun beat Jones, maybe its Gods will to show Jones how to be humble. Maybe Shogun has a financial disaster around the corner and the win bonus will help out. Just saying.

What a fag.

pulling for Rua… but i am pretty sure Jones is gonna get a takedown in round 1 then start dropping elbows.

Some of ya’ll may remember when cecils and i started a band called War Bones. We didn’t get signed, our first video director tried to hit on my mom, and we blew the production budget completing our Pride collection. After finding out about Jones narcing on kids in college, we changed the band name to Hydraulic Omaplata. We haven’t had practice in four months.

You can’t prove a negative.
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.

@TheHulkSmash

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.

@Crackity Bones, RWilsonR and HulkSmash

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.

No matter the flavor of haterade, Jones will flow like water and drown the Shogun.

Johnny unorthodox Jones runs his mouth yet some more, wow what a shocker.
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.

@RwilsonR – Thank you for articulating what I hope a lot of people here are thinking. I grew up on the West coast and have spent a lot of time listening to atheists blindly badmouth American Christians without even pausing to consider how judging someone else’s beliefs makes them look.

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.

Any dislike I have for Jon Jones comes from his cockiness. Though he has at leasst backed that up.

I actually totally agree with you Crackity Bones. I’m not religious at all, but there are a lot of people on here, and elsewhere, who seem to hate anyone who expresses their religious beliefs in gratitude in MMA.
Well… actually they seem to only have a problem with Americans, or at the least Westerners, expressing Christian feelings. Nobody seems to care too much about Asians following religious customs, Brazilians thanking God, or Fedor espousing his Russian orthodoxy.
I don’t necessarily believe what Jon Jones believes, but I’m not offended at all by his expression, and don’t dislike him because of it. Even if I do tend more towards an unbelieving streak, I don’t particularly like the obnoxious arrogance of atheists and non-believers in feeling the need to mock or point out how much smarter they are than religious people. If it is a fairly mainstream, not crazy radical belief system that isn’t harming anyone I just say, to each his own.

I don’t comment much- for one thing, my browser stored the wrong password, evidently- but there is a common theme in the Bones-hate that bothers me. Is it really so bad to say that God is good? Yes, there’s suffering in the world- does that mean that Jon Jones should say God is bad? Does it mean he doesn’t have the right to be thankful for what he’s given? That just doesn’t make sense to me.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ma creep back into obscurity.

rashad is a dbag , he has always been a dbag and he will always be a dbag.

I reckon I feel the same way … I love watching him fight I just hope he gets worked over hard at least once and develops a more palatable personality.

@ waxedpants – I agree. Though it still is the wealthiest country… by far!

@ skeletor – completely agree with the Rashad hate. And I still like Jones, but it would be nice to see him learn a lesson in humility before he takes over the division.

If he beats Shogun I might cry.

Don’t forget how young he is. Most men are pretty stupid til age and experience wise them up. He’s just yakking cuz no matter what he has to be nervous, Shogun is WAY better and more dangerous than anyone Jones has fought. Fuck Rashad, Shogun would kill him. At least Jones has a freak chance against anybody he fights, shad SHOULD be a non-issue

Worst part is that I think he’s going to throw Shogun around like a rag doll. I’d pray to god but apparently he’s busy wiping jone’s ass.

I can’t believe how fast I went from loving this kid to looking forward to Shogun bitch slapping him.

” God is good , God is good!” ………. yeah he’s fucking good if you’re born in the wealthiest ( it was then ) country in the world as a genetic freak in a genetic freak sports family and lived the life of a pampered star athlete since grammar school.
Fucking pompous ass. Go tell the kid in libya that just suffocated to death in a cloud of tear gas that gos is good cause you win an mma fight.

He became nauseating real fast.

I dislike everything about Rashad, his personality and his fights. Bones is a douche bag but his fights are awesome. I hope Shogun kills him.

Man! I’m trying to talk about big games and you wanna talk about PRACTICE?!

for some reason i really wanna talk about rashad.

I got Jones.

By 12-6 elbows. Round 1.

I agree with Bones, the only one that is ever on his mind is Jon Jones. He doesn’t think about anyone else. Why would anyone ask about Rashad? Just because he was gifted this title shot because Rashad was injured? And if he should win, then shouldn’t Rashad get the next shot at the title? What silly questions you stupid reporters.

If I wasn’t pulling for Shogun before (I was), I certainly am now.

Jon Butthurt Jones. You got gifted a title fight Homie, lighten the fuck up.

I agree with Bones on the the irrelevance of Shooga Shad at this point in time. He best focus on Shogun(SHO NUFF!)lest he get kicked in the mouf.

I wonder if Rashad is gonna leave Jackson’s camp like Diego did, since it is no longer all about him.
And with Diego in mind, those pics of Cain Velasquez make him look like a bigger, meaner, more gangsta, less gay version of Diego Sanchez.