Rampage: Jones was rude to my coach
At Thursday’s UFC 135 open workouts Rampage continued to blast Jon Jones for what he interpreted as disrespect, but this…
At Thursday’s UFC 135 open workouts Rampage continued to blast Jon Jones for what he interpreted as disrespect, but this time he had a new accusation to level at his opponent.
“He badmouthed my coach today, here at the open workout,” Jackson told reporters. “That’s not right. The kid has no respect for nobody. He needs to be humbled.”
“It’s very disrespectful what he did to my coach. You don’t come up to your opponent’s coach and talk crap. For the honor and respect of this sport, you don’t do that.
“Jon Jones says I fight for money, and this and that and he fights for fun and honor and stuff like that. But he’s not showing the [signs] of a fighter who fights for honor. Yes, I fight for money, because this is the career I chose. But at the same time I have a lot of honor and respect for this sport and other fighters.”
The coach in question was British boxing coach Mark Kinney, a stout veteran of the fight game who told MMA Fighting that Jones was “just trying to wind me up.”
After Saturday night, Kinney said, no one will be asking about what Jones said to him or whether he really had a spy in Jackson’s camp. “They’re going to be asking about his concussion. They’re going to be asking whether he’ll be in hospital for two weeks or four.”