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This is what happens when you try to beast 25/8.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight contender, Corey Anderson, is not the biggest fan of 205-pound titleholder, Jon Jones. That’s understandable, considering how often “Overtime” gets bumped for “Bones” when sharing a fight card.
The best way to get payback, of course, would be to beat Jones for the division title; however, the promotion appears to have little interest in giving Anderson the next crack at the light heavyweight crown.
Being ranked No. 8 might have something to do with it.
Undaunted, Anderson has ramped up his trash talk over the past few mouths in an attempt to manufacture some drama. Which is all well and good, every fighter needs to create an emotional investment for fans, but you can’t expect to dunk on an embattled fighter like Jones if you can’t even make the easy lay ups.
“So last week it was his past like he was a changed man,” Anderson tweeted about Jones. “This morning we see he’s still the same ol ‘Can’t get right’…from pregnant woman to strippers. [Jones] deserves a Grammy for his acting skills, cuz he selling the media that changed man roll like Denzel.”
That was followed by the hashtag “phony.”
They don’t hand out Grammy awards for acting, they hand out Oscars. Grammy awards are for singing and while Jones sang like a canary to get his drug-testing suspension reduced, I can’t imagine that’s what “Overtime” had in mind with his “burn.”
Jones found himself back in the headlines this week for an alleged strip club incident in Albuquerque, one that ended with a charge of misdemeanor battery (full details here). He’s expected to return to the Octagon in late December.
Anderson, meanwhile, remains unbooked.