Jon Jones went two weeks without tweeting but then Francis Ngannou’s groundbreaking new contract with the PFL was announced Tuesday, and he got all mad about it.
Ever since then, it’s been bad take after bad take from the UFC heavyweight champion, who went from being glad that Ngannou “knows his worth” to …
THIS:
Calling yourself the baddest man on the planet from across the street, who does that? Lol
— BONY (@JonnyBones) May 16, 2023
Who does that? The lineal heavyweight champion who never lost his title. I don’t recall Jones ever giving Daniel Cormier credit for being the “real” UFC light heavyweight champ without ever beating him. Same energy, no?
THIS:
My man wins one Super Bowl, transferred to a top arena football league, and then claims to be better than Brady. That’s what I’m hearing right now.
— BONY (@JonnyBones) May 16, 2023
Except the Super Bowl winning quarterback would get a fat contract from either his own team or another one in free agency without ever thinking about leaving the NFL to get paid his worth. Doesn’t Jones have brothers in the NFL who can teach him about this?
AND THIS:
You notice that! Wasn’t calling himself the baddest when he was still a free agent. He signed safely behind a new organization, and now suddenly the baddest thing walking. Like we all haven’t seen him quitting inside that cage before. https://t.co/2lm13FUqxI
— BONY (@JonnyBones) May 16, 2023
What I notice is Jones took three years off when he could’ve fought Ngannou at any point while he was still under UFC contract during that time, but I digress.
As bad as those Twitter takes were, there was more.
Later in the week, Jones apparently was in the room while his teammate and training partner Maurice Greene did an interview with MMA Mania. And once he heard Ngannou’s name mentioned during a question, Jones couldn’t help himself and crashed the interview to take a dig at him.
Jon Jones made a cameo in my interview with Maurice Greene, his teammate, and had some choice words for Francis Ngannou pic.twitter.com/upNfLcNAX7
— Alex Behunin (@AlexBehunin) May 18, 2023
“Francis is a p*ssy and always gon’ be a p*ssy,” Jones said. “With all that muscle.”
How silly – and childish, really. But I suppose that’s what we should come to expect from Jon Jones at 35: the same level of maturity he had at 25.
The situation isn’t hard to understand: Ngannou vs. Jones isn’t happening because Ngannou “is a p*ssy.” The fight isn’t happening because Ngannou possessed the self-dignity to stand up for himself against the UFC in a way that no fighter ever has. Without locking him up to a long-term restrictive contract, the UFC wasn’t going to make the fight. Ngannou said no thank you and received his worth elsewhere.
It’s that simple.
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