"I don't know. Here's the bottom line, he should not have been pressured into this. I did everything I could to warn this guy. I told him ‘Hey I'm coming to the division' and he should have packed up and left it. He talked about going to heavyweight and he should have done it because now he's waited too long and the man has arrived."
"Listen, here is what you need to know. This show [The Ultimate Fighter] has some tremendous young talent on it. I will be taking 50 percent of that talent and teaching them how to fight. The other half is going to be taught how to be selfish, entitled brats like Jones. The good news is that when it is all over, I'm sure Coach Jones will throw a hell of an after-party."
"What you need to know, Todd, and what Jon already knows, is that I got the biggest arms, I got the greatest charm and I do the most harm. I'm better than Jon Jones, I'm better than Sean Combs and I'm better than John Holmes. And little Jon Jon, the little leprechaun, has my belt I'm coming to take."
.......and it begins. Some of it will be very funny, and some of it will be meh, but here's what you need to know, April is a long way away, so there will be a heck of a lot of it.
I think Dana has put this together to increase Jones' popularity - put him up against a mouthy idiot, let it run for months...by the time they fight everyone will be so fed up with Sonnen that the inevitable Jones victory will be welcomed by all and Dana will have a more popular and marketable champion. Sonnen will no doubt realise that he's been set up for this, but he'll laugh all the way to the bank after the biggest payday of his career.
But the end will not be funny - unless your idea of "funny" is Jones elbowing Sonnen to sleep inside of 3 minutes.
i predict this fighter never happens. excuse is that jones doesn't make weight and starts his heavyweight careers.... lightheavyweight title is forfeited to chael.... anderson vs chael 3, winner takes all!!
pickula - I think Dana has put this together to increase Jones' popularity - put him up against a mouthy idiot, let it run for months...by the time they fight everyone will be so fed up with Sonnen that the inevitable Jones victory will be welcomed by all and Dana will have a more popular and marketable champion. Sonnen will no doubt realise that he's been set up for this, but he'll laugh all the way to the bank after the biggest payday of his career.
Sonnen knows he won't win just like the rest of us know it, but hearing him say all this on TUF will be great. This season already sucks because the only "entertainment" is Roy bitching about Carwin's fighter missing weight after his fighter lost. I laughed at the "hell of an afterparty" DUI reference. And all the rhymes.
