Want to know how to fix the Jon Jones image and muck he created, easy, give him the fight against Stipe for the heavyweight title. Seriously. Why didn’t they give that fight to Jon Jones? Here is the current problem with Jones. The guy trashed his image (personally, I don’t care about what he did it’s a him problem and I have what’s called me problems) Jones lost his belt, he nearly ruined his own career. This situation leaves even best publicist in the world, a guy who could make anyone look good and OJ look innocent scratching their head and thinking. Hmmmm, how can I spin this.
And the UFC had the perfect, THE PERFECT opportunity. And they tossed it. They didn’t even have to go looking for an answer it actually came to them through the wonders of that little blue messenger bird twitter thing. But the UFC just let it slide right past them like a sloth running for it’s life. Imagine it, people have been planning to boo Jon Jones for months. MONTHS.
HETAST JUST NU
We have been sitting around practicing yelling all the things we would never say to his face and if we should booooo or BOOOO or booOOOO or bOoOooO or how long to hold our jeers. Yet even the most hardened Jon Jones enemy, even if DC and the girl whose car he hit in the old bag of cash run and some guy in college whose girlfriend cheated on him with Jones had seen him step in, save an entire card and fight for the belt at Heavyweight even those people would hear his name and say, I mean… that’s a cool guy. But the UFC let it slip right past them, just straight through the fingers and that opportunity is gone. The amount of merchandise and free press that would have generated in one “yes” is impossible to replicate.
Unless Jon goes and cures cancer and puts and end to Daesh right now with his fist, they can’t get that moment back. What’s also confusing to me is this, currently the UFC has 500 fighters on it’s roster. Let’s say 50 of them are currently locked into this card, the next and the next. Then another 50 just because I have no idea who they are and then another 200 because I have absolutely no idea who they are. You are telling me that a company that even after passing 300 people that would still have 200 remaining employee’s just sitting around scratching their bellies they couldn’t find anyone? At all? They couldn’t have randomly said…. Fine. Aldo, Edgar FIGHT. Or Faber, Dillashaw settle this, get to Vegas, rent a car start driving, that’d sell. Who cares, we just need an angle. Go find Ken and Frank Shamrock, hurry, àndale, àndale!
The UFC were probably waving money in front of people and still nothing? I can promise you, hold me to it right now and tell whoever you want. People all said Mendes was a hero for saving the McGregor/Aldo fight. Such a guy, such a champion (also, see how stepping in win or lose makes your career a million times better, until you know, you fight Edgar and lose) but everyone said how brave and grateful they were for Mendes taking that fight win or lose.
I am declaring to everyone now, I am a Q level fighter (a,b,c,d….) and if you or the UFC or whoever took the amount of money Mendes made, deposited it in my account and gave me a few days until it cleared. I would fight Aldo or Conor or anyone up or down in my weight class right now. Today. Even if I had to go to the bathroom, I would fight them in a crowded arena. Once they knocked me out horrendously (after they caught up to me from running in circles) and I released my bowels and pissed myself, I’d go on amazon.com and buy a bunch of stuff to cheer myself right back up.
Anyone with that 500k sitting around and a UFC contact, call me. But seriously, huge mistake passing up Jon Jones offer. HUGE, once in a decade opportunity as it would have not only been a win/win. It would have launched not only one of their superstars careers to all new heights it would have opened at least 25 new possibilities for him and the UFC in two weight classes and shook up divisions that honestly starting to thin out.