Jones: Dana's no sensei, so whatever

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                    <p>UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones spoke recently with Ariel Helwani, ahead of his fight with Glover Teixeira&nbsp;at UFC 172, live on PPV. Jones was coming to the end of an avalanche of media duties, and asked Helwani for some different questions.</p>

Helwani obliged, noting that UFC president Dana White had recently made the case for Renan Barao being the pound for pound best fighter in MMA.

"I can’t argue with what Dana says," replied Jones. "Ultimately, Dana’s not a fighter, he’s a promoter. I can’t always speak for his logic when he says certain things. His word really doesn’t… it doesn't change anything. He’s our boss and everything, I mean, but he’s no sensei, so whatever."

Helwani continued to press, asking Jones if he feels Dana promotes Jones like the does other fighters, notably UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.

"it's hard to say," replied Jones. "It's hard to say. But at the end of the day, all I have to do is win fights, and hope for the best. I would like to have a great relationship with him."

"I don’t really want to comment on it too much.  I think it’s apparent where I rank with him. I’ll just say I’ll never be Chuck Liddell, but at the same time, you know, it's whatever, it’s all cool. As long as we respect each other, and I do the best I can do for the company, everything will be cool."

Helwani suggested, borrowing from pro wrestling parlance, that Jones go total heel.

"I'm not quite ready to go total heel," said Jones. "I love the people. And I definitely want to be remembered as a positive force and light to the sport, and to people's lives. And that's what I am going to continue to fight for. I haven't quite given up on the people."

 

 

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Woe is the plight of Jon Jones.

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Stephen Holder - Maybe something I'm not aware of prompted Dana White to say Barao is the p4p best but I wasn't under the impression that it was somehow a jab at Jones. Who knows.

lol I have a feeling this wont end well for Helwani if Dana wasn't intending to slight Jones. Man what a little fucking Weasel haha.
It's funny how in one interview Dana says Barao is the best p4p fighter in the world, and in the next interview say he's in the process of beginning a star.

He's either the best in the world, or not good enough to be a star by UFC standards. Phone Post 3.0

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DoomFarmer - Woe is the plight of Jon Jones.
Lmao indeed sir, indeed.

VU. Phone Post 3.0

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Maybe jones has Aspergers... Phone Post 3.0

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Ariel being Ariel.

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Does he really think he hasn't gone full heel? Phone Post 3.0

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Jones appears to have just gotten back from a bowl cruise in this video.

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time traveling 12er - 
bigtreechris - 
Stephen Holder - Maybe something I'm not aware of prompted Dana White to say Barao is the p4p best but I wasn't under the impression that it was somehow a jab at Jones. Who knows.

lol I have a feeling this wont end well for Helwani if Dana wasn't intending to slight Jones. Man what a little fucking Weasel haha.
It's funny how in one interview Dana says Barao is the best p4p fighter in the world, and in the next interview say he's in the process of beginning a star.

He's either the best in the world, or not good enough to be a star by UFC standards. Phone Post 3.0


Uhh... you can be the p4p best and still not be a star if no one knows who you are.  Star =/= talent. 



Do you think Barao would be a star if he got the same PR push that Rousey got?

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bigtreechris - 
Stephen Holder - Maybe something I'm not aware of prompted Dana White to say Barao is the p4p best but I wasn't under the impression that it was somehow a jab at Jones. Who knows.

lol I have a feeling this wont end well for Helwani if Dana wasn't intending to slight Jones. Man what a little fucking Weasel haha.
It's funny how in one interview Dana says Barao is the best p4p fighter in the world, and in the next interview say he's in the process of beginning a star.

He's either the best in the world, or not good enough to be a star by UFC standards. Phone Post 3.0


How good you are has nothing to do with how big of a star you are.  I bet if you went to fight week, and looked at the autograph lines, you would see that someone like Roy Nelson has a much longer line then Barao.  Barao is easily the hardest champ in the UFC to market.  He hardly speaks english, he's humble, and he looks like Nosferatu.   The only thing he's got going for him with the American market is that he startches fools.  Sometimes that just isn't enough.

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Good Boy Killa - Cain smashes anyone in the ufc so Cain is P4P king Phone Post 3.0
You have no clue what p4p means do you Phone Post 3.0

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Molsonmuscle360 -
bigtreechris - 
Stephen Holder - Maybe something I'm not aware of prompted Dana White to say Barao is the p4p best but I wasn't under the impression that it was somehow a jab at Jones. Who knows.

lol I have a feeling this wont end well for Helwani if Dana wasn't intending to slight Jones. Man what a little fucking Weasel haha.
It's funny how in one interview Dana says Barao is the best p4p fighter in the world, and in the next interview say he's in the process of beginning a star.

He's either the best in the world, or not good enough to be a star by UFC standards. Phone Post 3.0


How good you are has nothing to do with how big of a star you are.  I bet if you went to fight week, and looked at the autograph lines, you would see that someone like Roy Nelson has a much longer line then Barao.  Barao is easily the hardest champ in the UFC to market.  He hardly speaks english, he's humble, and he looks like Nosferatu.   The only thing he's got going for him with the American market is that he startches fools.  Sometimes that just isn't enough.

I understand his talent doesn't mean star power. Despite his language barrier and humbleness, the UFC could still promote him. If Ronda farts in public it's on the front page of every mma media site, but the rest of these guys barely get that exposure unless they have a fight coming up, and even then there only pushing the main and co-main in the media.

If Dana spent as much time promoting his fighters top to bottom versus talking about an imaginary street fight between Rousey and Mayweather, he could probably turn the majority of these fighters into household names, if not stars. Phone Post 3.0

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I like how in Dana's interviews he's saying Barao is the p4p king.

In Barao's interviews he's saying he doesn't get paid enough and his opponents make more.

Something's wrong there.

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Huge card happening in boxing. Save you money for it. Mayweather, Khan, and Broner all on the same card.

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Dana is no sensei? Has jones heard of a little thing called boxercise?

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Man, Ariel loves to stir up shit. Phone Post 3.0

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Dead President - Does he really think he hasn't gone full heel? Phone Post 3.0

He hasn't.

It's just that he comes across as that much of a geniune dick that you THINK he is a heel.

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Tilla -
Dead President - Does he really think he hasn't gone full heel? Phone Post 3.0

He hasn't.

It's just that he comes across as that much of a geniune dick that you THINK he is a heel.
I'd vote you up if I wasn't such a lowly mudnamer. Phone Post 3.0

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Helwani kept pushing? You don't say.... Phone Post 3.0

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Decimated - 
vagabond - Dana is no sensei? Has jones heard of a little thing called boxercise?



HAAAA!  Boxercise yeah some little fad he created and rode in his early years.  I wonder why we didn't see Boxercise in UFC 1.  


Rumor has it that Dana was suppossed to be in the originial UFC tournament but rorion saw Dana's routine backstage. Worried that Dana's boxersize was too dangerous for the cage, rorion made the decision to reduce the number of competetors from 10 to 8. This left Dana and fellow ufc hopefull Richard Simmons as spectators and Dana vowed to one day buy the ufc out from under seg to promote his brand of self defense, Boston Boxercize.