The beef between UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and his former friend and training partner Rashad Evans has taken on an Energizer Bunny type quality, it just keeps going and going and going, well, you get the picture.
The latest chapter in the ongoing saga has Evans sending a tweet to Jones that said in part, “U r my son!! Get off my phone fake a** white boy!!” The good folks over at CagePotato.com have posted photographic evidence of the text and Jon Jones also confirmed that it was from Evans.
Evans admitted to MMAWeekly Radio that he did send the message to Jones, “Yeah I did say that to him, but he also said a lot of things to me that I didn’t want to put out there. I mean, we were arguing—I said a lot of things, heated, back and forth, you know? But I did call him a fake ass white boy, I did,” Evans admitted.
“But its not that I think being a white boy is a bad thing, its not against white people in general. It’s an insult to him because, of course, he’s not white, you can see where the insult comes in,” Evans continued. “That’s the extent to the insult right there—it’s not anything against white people, it’s that he’s black and I’m calling him white.”
“It showed that it made him mad because he posted it on the Internet. What kind of move is that anyway, that’s like high school, not even high school, that’s like grade school. Look at what Rashad said to me.”
Jones and Evans had once said that they would never fight each other, but when Jones defeated Mauricio “Shogun” Rua for the light heavyweight title at UFC 128, a rift developed between the two after it was announced that Evans would be Jones’ first title defense.
A hand injury to Jones prevented that fight from taking place,
Since that time, the two have been exchanging words, mostly through Twitter and text messages.
If a fight between Jones and Evans were to ever take place, the UFC will have a great deal of material with which to promote this grudge match.
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