What’s the difference between hating Jones for roid use but wank over Pride and 2000s fighters?

[Misanthropist]

If it weren’t for the dramas and incidents Jones caused outside the Octagon, i’m sure no one would bat an eye for his PED use and would call him the best fighter.

Or else how would you explain the large % MMA community that hate him for his PED use but have a hard on for everyone who fought in the late 90s to 2010s, were known roid to the gills and some who got caught for it?

It’s jealousy looking for every excuse to hate him for clearing the division for 3 generation and ending their fan favourites careers.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

It was legal in PRIDE and written into the contract encouraging its usage.

It's also because he's considered the GOAT and most people think he cheated.

 

[traditionally_irreverent]

 

[Osculater]

Because juicing was legal in Pride

 

[w00t]

if you weren't juicing in Pride you were choosing to handicap yourself.

 

[KarateYeah]

If it weren’t for the dramas and incidents Jones caused outside the Octagon, i’m sure no one would bat an eye for his PED use and would call him the best fighter.

Or else how would you explain the large % MMA community that hate him for his PED use but have a hard on for everyone who fought in the late 90s to 2010s, were known roid to the gills and some who got caught for it?

It’s jealousy looking for every excuse to hate him for clearing the division for 3 generation and ending their fan favourites careers.

 

[-Sideways-]

Pretty much everyone was on the juice in PRIDE so it was an even playing field. Jones blatantly cheated to gain an advantage.

 

[WhiteMousse]

You goddamn fucking muppet.

Let me break this down for sub 100 IQ.

Pride everyone is allowed to go 150.

UFC you can't go over 80 or you get a ticket.

Jon Jones goes 178 and runs over a pregnant woman and then goes back to get his cocaine.

Nobody else is allowed to do that.

Jesus fucking christ

 

[Misanthropist]

Meanwhile his opponents Bader, Vitor (Sherdog’s top 3 wank), Machida, Jackson, Evans, Sonnen, Shogun and Gus before they suddenly got “out of shape” doesn’t get the same criticism. Ever.

 

[prikoke]

Meanwhile his opponents Bader, Vitor (Sherdog’s top 3 wank), Machida, Jackson, Evans, Sonnen, Shogun and Gus before they suddenly got “out of shape” doesn’t get the same criticism. Ever.

Vitor gets a lot of criticism. As for the ones who haven't been caught cheating, it means that even if they used PEDs they used *less* in order to pass the test. Jones got caught which means he probably used more and got more of an advantage. Then he was basically offered an exemption because of "pulsing picograms" or whatever.

 

[Darkavius]

I can't say I have watched a lot of Pride because I came into MMA when Lesnar was top of the HW division and when Silva first started but to me I look at the difference in one way. Jones popped hot against OSP. Of all the LHW fighters...OSP? That's embarrassing imo.

 

[CrimsonFan]

People don't hate Jones because of roids

They hate him because he's fake and smug.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Jones popped hot against OSP. Of all the LHW fighters...OSP? That's embarrassing imo.

What? He popped before the Cormier rematch (and after).

 

[Thy]

pride was cool.

also don't care if jones uses roids. he should be in jail for other things imo though.

 

[wake_me]

People tend to dislike sociopaths

 

[Mick Dojang]

I remember Chael saying both he and Jon were juiced up in their bout

If everyone is full of roids then who cares, that's a level playing field

 

[Cazador Diurno]

I refuse to answer silly questions to silly people

 

[Captain Herb]

Jones popped hot against OSP. Of all the LHW fighters...OSP? That's embarrassing imo.

After OSP but before originally scheduled DC1 iirc

 

[CombatCyborg]

Whats the difference between cheating and not cheating, is that what you're asking

 

[BenjaminDuffy]

This is a bizarrely terrible thread. I can't tell which would be worse: if TS legitimately didn't know the answer to his question, or he knew, and this was his idea of a clever devil's advocate take.