Arlovski: "Jon Jones rarely comes in to training."

[Micsterator]

So the most hated guy in MMA is essentially the best fighter in the sport without really trying?

Well it sure sounds fu*ked up when you put it that way. But yes, I guess that's what's being said.

 

[MMA Maine-iac]

He's busy making videos at that hipster weightlifting gym.

Massthetics are awesome. I don't know what you're on.

 

[Beastman09]

big if true

 

[Dbreiden83080]

If Jones was slacking off in camp we would have heard about it long before now.. He has said many times, he trains 3 sometimes 4 times a day in camp..

 

[markys00]

isnt this common knowledge?

Nope just something jbj fans back on whenever it's brought up how close it was

 

[Snoowpy]

So the most hated guy in MMA is essentially the best fighter in the sport without really trying?

The thing is, it's so much potential wasted. He might've been the greatest thing we'd ever witness in this sport, if he had GSP like training obsession. Hell, he might still be the greatest to ever live(just not to his potential), but
it makes me sad. I'm not hating but as a fan of the sport i'd like the guy on top trying his hardest to be the best theres ever lived, inspire children, bring the sport to it's next level.

 

[Tony_Clifton]

Not good if thats true. Jones is great but the gap isn't so big that he can take training or his opponents lightly

 

[campbecc]

If Jon Jones played a team sport, he would probably be in the press box or on the sidelines constantly for being late to practice and shit. He's lucky he doesn't have a "team" to really be accountable to.

He owes no one else anything because he plays a solo sport. But most teams in any sport would let one of the best players on the planet keep playing no matter what they do off the field/court

 

[Dbreiden83080]

I recall Jones/Evans Primetime and he was running up hills, doing tons of Strength and Conditioning working like a machine.. He trains hard guys..

 

[Mixedfights]

He's probably training somewhere else. Doing those movement drills.

 

[Kalmyk Fighter]

He admitted he did almost no training for that fight

It's in his interest to say that.

Gotta keep up that aura.

 

[Fukkup]

Jones would have been that one dude in college you get stuck with as a project partner, who shows up the day it's due stoned asking to fill him in and tell him what to present.

That analogy would work except jones would show up and elbow the lecturer into fuckin oblivion n you'd get an A.