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Jones wants to be Rashad's friend, after the fight
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A verbal battle between former teammates Jon Jones and Rashad Evans has been unfolding for now many weeks on twitter. Among more conventional epithets thrown back and forth like Judas and baby, Evans caused a collective "Hunh? when he called Jones a "swagger jacker." At the Super 7 meeting prior to UFC 129, Jones explained what Rashad meant.
“Swagger is what makes you sexy, it’s what makes you, you. So we have this stylist whenever there’s really big events going on and they want us to look good, look our best. I think I was sent to the same exact stylist (as Rashad), and I ended up wearing the same shirt, the same suit and the same tie that Rashad wore like a year earlier.
“So I show up at Jay Leno with this suit on and he sees the suit and he’s like ‘oh you’re copying my style’. It was totally not intentional, but a little embarrassing.”
Jones went on to express a desire to end the twitter bickering.
“It’s definitely going to be huge for the sport, teammates fighting each other. You know Rashad, we were friends and hopefully we can be friends after the fight. It’s just business. Like if the Patriots had a friend on the Jets it’s not like they can’t play each other in the Super Bowl. You’ve just got to get the job done."
“I think this whole Rashad Evans situation is really weird because the night before my Bader fight he came to my dinner and told me I was getting the shot against Shogun and he gave me his blessing. Now suddenly I’m the guy who betrayed him and all this type of stuff. I really don’t know how that happened.”