The champ takes plenty of heat for the way he carries himself. Whether you think he’s overly cocky or rightfully confident, you may not have appreciated the way that he dropped Machida to the ground like a sack of rocks. “Bones” has yet to taste defeat in mixed martial arts, which may be why he doesn’t seem to empathize with his fallen foes very well.
While the PPV microphones were cued in to Goldy and Rogan, the online stream gave access to a number of audio and video feeds. As it turns out, in addition to coaching Jones on takedowns and chokes, Greg Jackson is there to remind Jones on proper in-cage etiquette.
Does it make him any less of an incredible fighter? No. Does it make you dislike him a little more? Probably.
The champ takes plenty of heat for the way he carries himself. Whether you think he’s overly cocky or rightfully confident, you may not have appreciated the way that he dropped Machida to the ground like a sack of rocks. “Bones” has yet to taste defeat in mixed martial arts, which may be why he doesn’t seem to empathize with his fallen foes very well.
While the PPV microphones were cued in to Goldy and Rogan, the online stream gave access to a number of audio and video feeds. As it turns out, in addition to coaching Jones on takedowns and chokes, Greg Jackson is there to remind Jones on proper in-cage etiquette.
Does it make him any less of an incredible fighter? No. Does it make you dislike him a little more? Probably.
Studio MMA’s Bobby Cavian was on hand at Friday’s UFC 138 Q&A with former UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans and he was good enough to record the entire session for us.
In the nearly 60-minute question and answer period Rashad touched on a number of topics from how he broke his hand and where he is in his rehab to who he think s will win against Machida and his former teammate and current UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. “Suga” also gives an update on his tumultuous relationships with his former nemesis Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and his former coach Greg Jackon.
Some spoilers are after the jump.
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Studio MMA’s Bobby Cavian was on hand at Friday’s UFC 138 Q&A with former UFC light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans and he was good enough to record the entire session for us.
In the nearly 60-minute question and answer period Mike Goldberg and Rashad touched on a number of topics from how he broke his hand and where he is in his rehab to who he think s will win against Machida and his former teammate and current UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. “Suga” also gives an update on his tumultuous relationships with his former nemesis Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and his former coach Greg Jackon.
Some spoilers:
• Mike Goldberg is sensitive about all of the people who point out his mistakes
• He broke his hand with one of the first overhand rights he threw against Tito when his thumb connected with the top of Ortiz’s head
• Goldberg says Tito could make 185 if his melon were normal-sized
• He feels that Anderson Silva would beat Jones
• He says Anthony Johnson is bigger than he is and likely walks around at 220 lbs
• Says that his former college roommate Gray Maynard used to be yoked and weighed around 205 after college
• Says the Brazilians he trains with at Imperial Athletics on the Blackzilians call him “Hashad” and they call Johnson “Humble”
• Rehab is going slowly because he damaged some of the nerves and tendons in his injured hand by not moving it for so long
• He went to Rampage’s after party when he lost to Jones to pay his respect and they had a drink together, before trading barbs like old times
• The last time he spoke with Greg Jackson was the day he told him he would fight Jones soon after he won the belt
• Says he’ll fight whoever they throw in front of him while he waits for the winner of Machida and Jones
• Says Jones is “sneaky” and “grimy” for the way he told reporters he would fight Rashad in spite of the Team Jackson pact
• If he had to pick it would be Jones because of the way he betrayed him than Machida to avenge the loss
• He loves Diaz’s mindset and anger he channels into his fighting, but is riding with his teammate GSP
• Says people would REALLY hate him if he went WWE like Chael Sonnen
• Says the UFC handled the Marquardt situation fairly and that he thinks he could come back the the promotion
• Feels he’s hated by many because he beat a lot of fans’ favorite fighters
• Can’t stop being who he is, so he’s stopped trying to prove the haters wrong
• Wants to be an analyst after he’s done fighting
• Doesn’t want to fight until he can’t
• Says when fighting stops being fun, he’s done
• Thinks Chael says things just to get a reaction
• Goldie says they are looking at 35 shows next year, up from 25 this year
• Mike also says Jon Anik will be a part of the “B” broadcast team similar to the WEC team
MMAFighting.com’s E. Casey Leydon was granted exclusive behind-the-scenes access as Jon Jones was training in New Mexico for his UFC 135 title fight against Quinton Jackson, which he won on Saturday night.
Watch below as Jones and trainer Greg Jackson devise a game plan to defeat Jackson, which, as you will see. included a hefty dose of leg kicks. In the end, Jones landed 35 leg strikes en route to his fourth-round submission victory, according to FightMetric.
MMAFighting.com’s E. Casey Leydon was granted exclusive behind-the-scenes access as Jon Jones was training in New Mexico for his UFC 135 title fight against Quinton Jackson, which he won on Saturday night.
Watch below as Jones and trainer Greg Jackson devise a game plan to defeat Jackson, which, as you will see. included a hefty dose of leg kicks. In the end, Jones landed 35 leg strikes en route to his fourth-round submission victory, according to FightMetric.
UFC light heavyweight contender Rashad Evans took part in a question-and-answer session with the fans prior to UFC 135 last week in Denver. Watch below as “Suga” talks about fighting Jon Jones, why he would never go back to Greg Jackson‘s camp in New Mexico and much more.
UFC light heavyweight contender Rashad Evans took part in a question-and-answer session with the fans prior to UFC 135 last week in Denver. Watch below as “Suga” talks about fighting Jon Jones, why he would never go back to Greg Jackson‘s camp in New Mexico and much more.
Everyone in the world has learned (save for maybe Nick Diaz) that Dana White has replaced Diaz with Carlos Condit as the title-shot contender against Georges St. Pierre for UFC 137 due to Diaz’s no.
Everyone in the world has learned (save for maybe Nick Diaz) that Dana White has replaced Diaz with Carlos Condit as the title-shot contender against Georges St. Pierre for UFC 137 due to Diaz’s no call no show to the Las Vegas press conference and after failing to make it to the Toronto press conference yesterday.
Filed under: UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, NewsOne of the interesting subplots of the Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit UFC 137 main event is the fact that both fighters currently train under Greg Jackson.
MMAFighting.com spoke to Jackson shortly after the UFC announced the welterweight title fight on Wednesday to find out where his allegiances will lie come Oct. 29.
A transcript of our conversation can be found below.
Ariel Helwani: Greg, two of your star fighters are going to fight each other in October. What will do you?
Greg Jackson: Teammate protocols are pretty clear in this situation so everybody knows what happening. I step out, the other coaches — John [Danaher], Phil [Nurse] and Firas [Zahabi] — will take care of GSP and probably [Mike] Winkeljohn and some of the other guys here will take care of Carlos. But I step out of it, so I won’t be cornering either guy. They’ll fight each other. Those are the new teammate protocols. We knew this would be coming — it will probably be coming again –but this time we are very well prepared.
Carlos trains in Albuquerque full-time, while GSP’s home base is in Montreal, so how will you not offer advice when you see him in the gym?
Carlos is still training with a team. I am just not going to do game plans and private lessons and everything that I normally do for the guys because usually it’s a pretty intense process — I give them private lessons all the time — heavy on the game planning, heavy on the personal growth plan, and for this, I’ll just let the other coaches do that for both Georges and Carlos. So I’ll just step out. They’re all amazing coaches. Geez, I’m the worst coach on the team. They’ll all do their thing.
Are you disappointed that they have to fight each other?
Nah, I mean, I don’t like it. They are two of my friends. Me and Georges, I mean, I love that man to death. And Carlos has been, since he came back to the gym, has been on a destruction streak. So they both have to eat, they have to make money. I really love training, working with my guys. There’s two of my favorites that I don’t get to work with this time, so that’s kind of a bummer. But I don’t care about the money; I don’t care about the fame; I don’t care about any of that stuff. They’ve got to make a living, but I can’t look across the cage at one of my guys. I just can’t do it.
Will GSP come to New Mexico for this camp?
No, I don’t think so. That wouldn’t make much sense if Carlos was here. The team is such a well-oiled machine after so many years of being together it’s not going to be a big deal.
Have they ever trained together?
Not much. I don’t know if they have at all, so not much. Carlos only came back a little bit ago and Georges comes in and out, and I go up there [to Montreal]. So I don’t think they have trained together at all.
I’m guessing you won’t offer a prediction on the fight?
Absolutely not (laughs). Since they’re both members of our team, I predict somebody from our team is going to win.
Where will you watch the fight?
I’ll be there because Donald Cerrone is fighting that night, Eliot Marshall … I got, like, four other guys. I’ll be there, but hopefully I’ll duck out before the main event. It’s just not something I want to watch. That’s their business. Sometimes brothers got to fight and it will be what it is and everything will be good again. They’re both really stellar, standup guys. You know, Georges, I cannot say enough good things about him. Not only Georges St-Pierre the fighter but Georges St-Pierre as a person. That man is phenomenal and the same for Carlos Condit. Such a good guy with a good heart. They’re going to have a great dust up, I hope they get Fight of the Night and then they can feed their families.
One of the interesting subplots of the