Jon Jones goes through the ESPN ‘Carwash’

When UFC Lighheavyweight champion Jon Jones turned down Chael Sonnen when the was offered as a replacement for an injured Dan Henderson just eight days before the subsequently cancelled UFC 151, he cited the difficulty of preparing for a new opponent given that five of the following eight days would be spent cutting weight and on media duties.

Some scoffed at the notion that media duties were a full time jo.

However, this behind the scenes video records Jones going through the EPSN “carwash,” starting with a SportsCenter segment and going from show to show, and ending with SportsNation.

Jones answered a dizzying cascade of questions about his beard, bones, UFC President Dana White, his brothers, Saturday night’s title challenger Vitor Belfort, and countless other topics.

And somewhere in there, he got a picture taken with the greatest wide receiver in NFL history Jerry Rice.