UFC analyst Din Thomas is uninterested in former two-division champion Jon Jones teasing fights and believes “Bones” simply desires consideration.
Jones relinquished his heavyweight championship and introduced his retirement final month. Two weeks later, after President Donald Trump introduced {that a} UFC occasion on the White Home grounds was being deliberate for subsequent 12 months, Jones re-entered the anti-doping testing pool. Thomas desires to see Jones ‘experience off into the sundown’
“My preliminary thought once I heard that (Jones re-entered the anti-doping testing pool) was this man loves consideration. He loves consideration. He is simply attempting to maintain his title on the market and he loves consideration,” Din Thomas stated on Daniel Cormier’s 3 Rounds podcast.
“He is dangling his standing over our heads and I hate it. I’ll inform you proper now, I do not give a f**ok if Jon Jones ever fights once more. I do not care, man.
“He is the best to ever do it, for positive. He is nice. He is super-great, however I do not care if he ever fights once more,” continued Thomas. “Simply experience off into the sundown. You realize who I care about? I care about Ilia Topuria, Dustin Poirier, the dudes which are out placing their lives on the road for us. I care about these dudes. Jon Jones, I do not care if he fights once more.”
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“We spent a 12 months and a half speaking about him not preventing. A 12 months and a half. I am like, yo, simply experience off dawg. You had an awesome profession. You had two, nice, Corridor of Fame careers. Simply experience off into the sundown. Cease enjoying with our feelings, man. I am uninterested in it.”
Whereas Thomas wish to see Jones keep retired, he admitted if Jones fights once more that he’d be within the entrance row to see it.
“He is develop into like Conor McGregor. It is the Conor McGregor factor. Now, if Jon Jones got here again, signed on the dotted line and he was preventing Tom Aspinall, yeah, I would be excited for it. I would be within the entrance row to observe it. However the truth that he is dangling this carrot over our head about preventing, it is fully is despicable. Simply depart, man. Simply depart. Is it actually for consideration? Does he want consideration that unhealthy?”
