Jones: I’m training with Belfort on Friday
“I don’t know if he’ll join Jackson’s,” said UFC lightheavyweight champion Jon Jones of Vitor Belfort. “He looked for me, called me, said he’d like to train with me.”
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones beat Vitor Belfort at UFC 152 on September 22, 2012. This week the pair will be training together in Miami, according to a report from Brazil’s Combate.com.
“I’m planning to train with Vitor on Friday in Miami,” said Jones, as translated by MMAMania. “I’m meeting him in a private gym, we’ll train together, see if we have good chemistry and maybe we’ll become training partners in the future. I don’t know if he’ll join Jackson’s. He looked for me, called me, said he’d like to train with me. I have to go to Miami on my way to New York City anyway, so I switched my flight to New York City for Friday night, so I can have lunch with him, train, talk to him. We might become training partners in the future.”
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Belfort later clarified, via Twitter.
“I want to clear the air that on the rumor of me training with Jon Jones,” he said. “The office that represent me wanted to use Jon for a commercial in Brazil so I called Malki. He was with Jon at the time and Jon got on the phone to talk with me. We had a friendly talk and he said let’s train one day and I said sure one day let’s train. It wasn’t a serious talk about training. I am a Blackzilian and I am not training with Jon. He is a great guy and I admire him but the media taking too far.”