Brown: Jones should have manned up
Matt Brown on Jon Jones: “You hit her, don’t run away. Man up. F—ing throw your title in the trash and make sure this woman’s OK.”
UFC welterweight Matt Brown appeared recently on FOX Sports’ The Great MMA Debate podcast, and discussed the stripping of former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones’ title, following his arrest for felony fleeing the scene of an accident.
“Me, personally, I think it was the right thing to strip the title,” said Brown as transcribed by David St. Martin for MMAFighting.com. “But when it comes down to it, I want to see the best fighters in the world fight the best fighters in the world. For PR purposes they have to strip the title, it’s the right thing to do. The fact is, the champion is the guy who never lost. Everything outside of the cage is meaningless. I want to see motherf—ers fight. I don’t care what he does.
“I don’t care that Mayweather has these domestic abuse things. There’s a million motherf—ers with domestic abuse that I hate just as much for that. If they are great fighters I want to watch them be great fighters. That’s why I watch the sport.”
“I never wanted to throw Jon Jones under the bus for the coke, I don’t give a f— if you go party or the other things that he’s done. This one I didn’t like because he left a pregnant woman at the scene hurt. There’s no way he didn’t know. I don’t believe for a second he didn’t know what he was doing.
“So selfish. I don’t really wish anything good for him at this point.”
“He had no idea. He’s just having a good time, living for the moment. He doesn’t think about, ‘Holy s—, what if I hit a pregnant woman?’ But then the problem becomes the excuses. They’ve got to stop somewhere. At some point you say, ‘OK, there’s no f—ing excuse for this.’ You hit her, don’t run away. Man up. F—ing throw your title in the trash and make sure this woman’s OK.
“I have all the sympathy for his struggles with drugs and things like that, but no matter how much you’re struggling with that, you leave the scene of a pregnant woman being hurt? I don’t give a f— about you no more.”
“It’s easy for us to put ourselves in his shoes and say, ‘I see why he did it.’ But that doesn’t excuse it. I see why he did it. You did it because you were selfish. He probably had some coke in the car, some money, some alcohol, whatever he had that he had to get rid of, but that doesn’t excuse it.
“I don’t care what he had in that car. I don’t care if he had 10 kilos and was looking at life in prison. There’s a pregnant woman’s life at risk. Who knows? I might be just as selfish of an a—hole and do the same thing and I hope that everyone would f—ing hate me for it, too.”
UFC commentator Joe Rogan speculated that Jones’ behavior could be linked to head trauma, but Brown was dubious.
“He wasn’t brain-damaged enough to not think about coming back and getting the s— to take care of himself,” said Brown
Miek Brown fights Tim Means on July 11 at UFC 189 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
