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Jon Jones’ Brother Explains Altercation With Team Cormier

There’s no love lost between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, but it seems as if the bad blood has trickled down to exist between their respective teams as well. In fact, Jones’ older brother Arthur, an NFL player and 2012 Super Bowl champion, explained to MMAFighting.com an altercation that took place between him and Team […]

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There’s no love lost between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, but it seems as if the bad blood has trickled down to exist between their respective teams as well.

In fact, Jones’ older brother Arthur, an NFL player and 2012 Super Bowl champion, explained to MMAFighting.com an altercation that took place between him and Team Cormier yesterday (July 28, 2017) morning:

“They were like, ‘The real champ’ and all this other bullshit,” Arthur Jones said. “After a while, I got annoyed. I was like, ‘Yeah, the paper champ.’ We started jawing back and forth. They just walked away. It really wasn’t nothing. People try to make a big thing out of nothing.”

While the elder Jones brother said the run-in ultimately turned out to be nothing, he also claimed that he would’ve ‘ragdolled’ all six members of Cormier’s team:

“I would have ragdolled all six of them — for the record,” he said.

He even went as far to say that he would’ve ‘slapped’ Cormier too if the light heavyweight champion was present:

“I’ll slap his ass, too,” Jones said.

At the end of the day, the situation didn’t boil over, but Jones’ brother hasn’t been pleased with some of the things Cormier has said about his younger brother in the past:

“He called my brother a junkie and ‘sandblasting prostitutes,’” Arthur said. “My brother has daughters. One day, they’re gonna have to watch this shit on YouTube and I don’t appreciate it. My brother never disrespected his family, so don’t disrespect my brother’s family.”

Cormier and Jones met for a first time at UFC 182 in Jan. 2015, with Jones successfully defending his then held light heavyweight title via unanimous decision. The duo will finally rematch in the main event of UFC 214 tonight live on pay-per-view (PPV) from Anaheim, California.

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Report: Jon Jones’ Brother Suspended From NFL For PED Use

The Jones family continues to take hits when it comes to the use of PED’s in sports. Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is currently under investigation for his use of estrogen blockers prior to his highly-anticipated rematch with Daniel Cormier at UFC 200, but was pulled from the event just two days out by the

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The Jones family continues to take hits when it comes to the use of PED’s in sports.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is currently under investigation for his use of estrogen blockers prior to his highly-anticipated rematch with Daniel Cormier at UFC 200, but was pulled from the event just two days out by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) after being flagged for the doping violation.

Now it appears Jones’ brother, a defensive lineman for the National Football League’s (NFL) Indianapolis Colts, Arthur Jones has been suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s PED policy. NFL Insider Ian Rapoport broke the news on Twitter:

Jones and his older brother Arthur are not the only professional athletes in the family, as their younger brother Chandler also plays in the NFL as a linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals.

Arthur Jones will miss the first four games of the 2016-17 season without pay, while his younger brother Jon is facing up to a two-year suspension from the UFC.

Stay with LowKick for the latest on the Jon Jones and his ongoing trials with USADA.

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NFL Player Arthur Jones, Brother of UFC Champ Jon Jones, Nearly Tried MMA

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is a large, scary man. 
At 6’4″, 205 pounds of lean muscle trained in the art of destruction, Jones stands as an intimidating figure in any setting. 
That is, unless his brother, Indianapolis Colts def…

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is a large, scary man. 

At 6’4″, 205 pounds of lean muscle trained in the art of destruction, Jones stands as an intimidating figure in any setting. 

That is, unless his brother, Indianapolis Colts defensive lineman Arthur Jones, is also in the room. 

Then things change. 

If Jon Jones is a Ford F-350, Arthur Jones is an International semi, equaling Jon’s height but clocking in at 315 pounds of power and muscle. Arthur is enormous, and while he makes his living on the gridiron, he once considered a career inside the cage, according to MMAJunkie’s John Morgan (h/t Indianapolis Star).

“I was supposed to take a fight when we had the lockout a few years ago (in 2011),” Jones said. “I was getting ready to schedule it, and I was training for it. Thank God for the other guy the lockout ended.”

While the last sentence of Jones’ comment may come off as a bit arrogant or lighthearted, it’s probably 100 percent true. 

Jones is not just a large dude who happened to work hard and make an NFL roster, nor is he a guy who remains in the headlines due to his siblings’ success (his younger brother, Chandler Jones, plays for the New England Patriots). 

Arthur, like his brothers, is an athletic freak. He claims that he would easily defeat either of his brothers in a fight, and as a two-time New York state wrestling champion in the heavyweight division who works at the lauded Jackson-Winkeljohn camp in New Mexico during the NFL offseason, the notion of Jones competing in MMA is not a stretch from an athletic standpoint. 

“I was a really good wrestler, so that was my base, but I do a lot of boxing in my off-season training,” Arthur said in Morgan’s piece. “I train at Greg Jackson’s pretty much every off-season.”

He does weigh 315 pounds, however, and that’s a problem. 

None of the sport’s major organizations have a super heavyweight division, and Arthur would definitely struggle to make the 265-pound heavyweight limit. By “struggle,” I mean he would have to cut off an arm. It just isn’t happening. 

Still, this is a fun story, and the idea of a 315-pound version of Jon Jones competing inside the cage is both terrifying and spectacular. With legitimate combat training and freakish athletic gifts, there’s no telling where Arthur could go in the sport if he could get his weight down and ease into the heavyweight division. 

Unfortunately for fight fans, he’s enjoying a successful career in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens and emerging as one of the finest all-around defensive linemen in the game today. 

For now, Jon can remain the biggest, baddest Jones brother on the UFC roster. 

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