Henderson: Everybody Was Blowing Up My Twitter About Fighting Jon Jones

As Henderson sees it, a return to the UFC is possible after his July 30 fight with Emelianenko -- but not immediately after. Instead, Henderson wants to defend the Strikeforce light heavyweight title, firmly establish himself as the top 205-pounder outside the UFC, and then take on the UFC light heavyweight champion.

Jones Answers: Rampage, Evans, Phil Davis, and Former Coach Greg Jackson

"(Rampage) has pride. He has a history. He has following. If I was him, I would call it my belt as well. Right now, I feel as it's my belt and I'm not gonna give that away. I've worked really hard to get to this point. I'm young, I'm hungry. I'm not gonna let someone who's maybe half passionate take my dreams away from me. Right now, getting hit isn't an option. I'm striving for perfection. To give Rampage everything that I've worked so hard for - I just can't allow that to happen."

Urijah Faber and 'Bones' Jones Make Commercial With Star-studded Cast

Mixed Martial Arts continues to become more and more popular in the mainstream media and in the eyes of sports fans across the globe. Here Urijah, and 'Bones' link up with Jillian Michaels, Patrick Willis, Matt Cassel, Josh Cox and the one and only Rey Mysterio to join forces in a new hilarious ad campaign led by none other, than the one and only Kenny Powers.

Karlos Vemola: Everyone Wants To Fight For the Title, But Everyone Has To Deserve It

The six time Czech Republic National Wrestling Champion who trains out of London Shootfighters also discussed his move to the UFC, his new weight-class, and the future of the UK heavyweight scene:

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In an interview with SB Nation, Jon 'Bones' Jones talked about getting involved with helping overseas refugees in the Middle East and raising awareness during 'their depression' as he puts it.

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Jones told MMA Junkie his next opponent will be...

Jon Jones and Rashad Evans Scuffle, GSP Plays Ref

Jon 'JBJ' Jones

Jon “Bones” Jones may soon need to change his nickname to Superman or Batman.
The current UFC light heavyweight champion has somehow gotten into the hero business over the last couple of months, and business is good.

Jones hit the spotlight on the same day he fought Maurcio “Shogun” Rua for the UFC light heavyweight title when he subdued a thief after he broke into someone’s car and stole their belongings.

Jones, along with his coaches Mike Winkeljohn and Greg Jackson, stopped the thief and held him there until police could arrive to make the official arrest.

Jones’ heroics don’t always involve stopping thieves.

While on a business trip to Florida this week, Jones observed a young woman along with her child involved in a somewhat loud conversation over a cell phone while he was checking into his hotel.
Jones overheard the young woman crying because she had apparently flown to Florida to be with her boyfriend, and after an argument ensued, he left her and her child to fend for themselves with no place to stay and an airline ticket for a flight that didn’t depart for two days.

Anderson Silva, I Will Not Fight Jones

Anderson Silva in a recent interview discussed the possibility of super fights in the future. Recently Silva has been touted as the greatest modern day fighter. An undefeated streak as the light heavyweight champion and a perfect record inside the Octagon does nothing but only help cement his position as best pound for pound fighter on the planet.

Now, with the rise of two opponents near Silva's weight have proved that they may need new challenges. Those two are Georges St. Pierre and the newest champion, Jon Jones. Although, not without scrutiny can they be considered the Anderson Silva of their weight division. St. Pierre must still face a very tough opponent in Shields and Jones must defends his title.

As Silva heads to face Yushin Okami at UFC Rio, that last win will have him officially cleaning out the middleweight division. And as he has expressed in past interviews, Silva plans on retiring a undefeated fighter in the very near future. So it comes as no surprise that he said this:

On fighting Jones:

"No chance, he’s in a different weight class, we are friends and we won’t fight each other."

On fighting GSP:

"There is a chance there, everything will depend on our results. It depends on him winning at UFC 129 and me winning in August (against Yushin Okami). And from there, who knows, this fight could take place."

Source: Esportes R7

Jon Jones: Unbeatable?

So as I list the Top 10 light heavyweights below, I'll talk about how I'd like their chances against Jones -- even though I expect Jones to reign over all of them for a long time.

(Editor's note: The individual fighter's ranking the last time we did light heavyweights are in parentheses).

1. Jon Jones (2): That was nothing short of a masterful performance that Jones put on against Shogun. Jones deserves all the accolades coming his way, and he deserves to be considered the best light heavyweight in the sport by a huge margin. The toughest challenges to Jones would probably come from outside his weight class, either if Anderson Silva moved up to challenge Jones or if Jones moved up to compete at heavyweight. As he currently stands among the light heavyweights, there's no one close to Jones.

2. Shogun Rua (1): After that savage beating at UFC 128, would anyone give Shogun much of a prayer in a rematch against Jones? Rua has had a great career already, and at age 29 he still has more good fights left in him, but it's hard to see how he ever beats Jones.

3. Lyoto Machida (3): Machida's style of striking would make for an interesting contrast with Jones, but it would be an uphill battle for Machida's in-and-out movement to work against someone with the huge reach advantage that Jones has. If Machida beats Randy Couture at UFC 129 he'll be in the light heavyweight title mix, but he probably needs two more wins before he'd get a shot at the champ.


Source and Full Article: MMA Fighting

RASHAD'S WORDS ON JONES & JACKSON

"I did my best to help [Jones in training] and I really felt that our friendship was on another level...but that wasn't the case. When the first opportunity came and he said that he would fight me if Dana said so, that to me stung more than anything. He said that he didn't want to lose his job and look man, the UFC isn't going to fire anyone because they are turning down fights. If anything it would mess up future opportunities for them and they weren't going to come to him and say, 'if you don't fight Rashad you are kicked out of the UFC.' That wasn't going to happen. I was always considerate and respectful to our system [at Greg Jackson's] because if I had the belt then I would want you to do the same for me. Then he comes across on national TV and says that he will fight Rashad if Dana White tells me to and I felt so f**cking utterly disrespected. I mean it's one thing to say something in an interview but the least you could have picked up the phone and been like, 'man I did an interview today and they kind of put me on the spot with a rough question and I answered it this way.' At least give me the heads up so that way I know and not look at it if he's Judas or something. You know who Judas is? That interview was some backstabbing s**t but now it's like whatever because now I know the game he is playing. Then for Greg to sit back and say he doesn't want to have anything to do with it....why not? You f**kn created the situation. Be his coach and be in his corner. That's what you want so do it. I don't care if coaches against me. It doesn't even matter ... Sure Greg Jackson is a great coach and he has been one of my great friends but let me tell you something...there is no end all be all in this game of mixed martial arts. It's a big of mixed nuts. People are touting Jon around like he's Neo from the Matrix. That's all good and dandy but be there for the kid when the kid falls. Be there to pick him back up rather than turn their back on him like they did to Machida. Lyoto loses and all of a sudden he sucks. No he doesn't f**kn suck it's just the way the game goes. Nobody is supreme in this game and that is what makes mixed martial arts what it is today. Nobody is the absolute best. Anybody can get beat by anybody on any given day."

This was a quote from Rashad Evans himself following the win of Jon Jones over the now former UFC Lightheavy weight champ, Muricio 'Shogun' Rua. After the fight, the UFC had Evans step into the cage and square off with Jones for publicity. After a short and sweet summary from Evans of Jones' performance, the once former and current champ looked at each other with a seemingly loving disgust.

Evans is now threatening to create his own camp and leave Jackson behind forever. In his last bout he stated that he only used Jackson a mere four times, and spent most of his training camp up in Colorado. He shows no sign of love for the Jackson camp out of Albuquerque, New Mexico and refuses to use them again.

Rashad become irate when Jones was brought in against his will into the training camp. After a short time Evans and Jones claimed to be good friends and they would never fight one another. "Well, I guess you should never say never," were the words coming out Evans mouth when he was in the cage with the newly crowned champ.

The truth of the reality is, business is business and that's what the fight game is. It just the same as any other sport. The biggest problem I have is that fighter's will refuse to fight one another because they become so close over training camps and living around one another for so long. The irony in that is their unwillingness to fight anyone near themselves. The fact of the matter is that if you look at any other competitive sport, Basketball, Baseball, Tennis, Lacrosse, Soccer, Hockey, and then look at the players. Many have friends on other teams and face them on the court, ice, etc with no qualms.

The biggest heel inside the matchmaking of the UFC right now is the 'loyalty' that fighters share with one another. This is a great thing to see on one hand because it shows comradery among the fighters and proves these guys have hearts and emotions just like all of us, an excellent display for the public. But, on the other hand, it keeps the fans from seeing great fights and also it becomes a problem in establishing the best fighters in their respected weight divisions.

Whatever the circus that Jackson plans to create over the next few months leading up to the fight will no doubt be hurtful and full of more and more remorse as the fight nears but one thing is for sure, Evans will have his hands full after Jones' performance this past weekend against the once great Pride FC champion.