Jon Jones' Management Continues Mishandling Rashad Evans Situation

He announced before the Jorgenson fight that he would have surgery to fix a recurring/nagging injury. He offered to delay it if the TUF coaching spots were open, but those went to Brock and Junior so he went ahead with the surgery and is now going to fight the top contender.

Dominick controlled the whole story, start to finish. Made it clear his hand had been jacked up for awhile and it had to be fixed soon. Fought his scheduled fight. Offered to mess up his plans to help out the UFC (unlike Jones messing up UFC plans)*. Then posted a disgusting post-op picture on his hand. Now he’s fighting on schedule with his recovery.

*This is what makes me most nervous. Knowing Malki and Jones, this whole thing looks orchestrated for one purpose. Negotiations.

Shouldn’t she have 86’d Jon Jones and Malki Kawa’s Twitter-ing privileges by now?

This is bullshit. Rashad Evans isn’t getting any younger and he’s been waiting for a title shot since Shogun was the champ. He has waited and who knows how he’ll be with such ring rust. I think Jones and his camp want Evans to fight again, hoping he will lose and they won’t have to fight him for the title.

Now I am not saying it’s because Jones is scared or worried about Evans. Nothing I’ve seen gives me any evidence of that, but something is going on and it’s fuckin’ bullshit for Evans. If I was him I would hound Dana and the UFC for this.

I am really hoping that Jones career doesnt go down the shits because of his shitty management team.

one can’t honestly believe there’s not an agenda being played to here, besides circumstance?

If it’s one giant troll against Rashad Evans, that is both incredibly impressive and extremely childish. If it’s just a serious clusterfuck of PR and flapping jaws, good god. How would anyone consider working with this guy already, let alone moving forward? If it’s a duck, not many of us will be privy to that inside loop of knowledge…. any-which-way we’ll all just sit back and enjoy the bumpy UFC summer ride together.

Malki and Jones are trying to kill two birds with one stone. Rashad waited so long for a shot at the belt. Jones’ little ploy screwed him out of another year without a title shot. Meantime, Malki gets to posture for PPV% points. I have to imagine Dana is pissed. These guys are fucking with his business for their own kicks. He should let the rest of Malki’s fighters know they are going to be in Facebook prelim fights till they drop him.

The old saying is that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Jones is probably making enough from his sponsors, personal appearance fees, etc., that he’s not at risk of going broke from being idle a little longer. Meanwhile, developing the “heel” or “phony” or “coward” persona is a great way to increase the click rate on stories about him and the buy rate on the eventual PPV when he does fight. So, great, more people will buy the PPVs because many would consider it satisfying to see him lose.

Jon Jones changed his mind is basically the entire story. He wanted the surgery now he doesn’t.
He f’d over Rashad Evans in the process and doesn’t wanna fight him now and thus is coming of as a douche.
Regardless of what Malki Kawa says those are the facts. It’s his own choices that make him a douche not his managers.

Look, Jones doesn’t have to actually be ducking Evans for it to look like Jones is ducking Evans.

Exactly. Jones just has a manager that doesn’t know how to manage his fighter, or the press. I’d be immensely surprised if Jones was actually scared to fight Evans. Who, might I add, isn’t as good of a wrestler, striker, has a five inch height disadvantage, and a ten inch reach disadvantage. He’d be nuts to be scared of Evans.

This makes the Diaz vs Mayhem thing seem like it was nothing.

If Jones simply changed his mind about the surgery, they wouldn’t be resisting the idea of putting the Evans – Jones fight back together.

Question is, why are they ducking Evans? It’s not like Jones can’t beat him.

It’s like one big f-you move. Only it’s not just an f-you to Evans, it’s an f-you to Dana, the UFC and the MMA fans as well.

I am seriously disgusted by this situation.

spectacular fashion(semi spectacular even) and alot of us will forget this little incident.. if he wins and his star grows big enough his new mainstream fans arent even going to care about past alleged ducking or w/e.. now on to bigger news…. “return of the dragon” is on (i dont remember seeing so many soccer kicks last time i seen it!!)

he had camps for a #1 contenders fight AND a title fight within the span of what, four months? Even if his hand didn’t affect the phases of his game, it had to at least be uncomfortable. He earned the right to see doctors and decide if it was worth it to get surgery after that amount of training.

Rashad is partly at fault for this situation because its HIM who decided to sit out in the prime of his career, waiting for a title fight and risking the possibility of getting injured. Jones owes nothing to the fans, or Rashad, that would put the longevity of his career at risk. Rashad is the person who chose to wait during the prime of his career, and this is probably why he doesn’t want to quit camp for Davis and wait for Jones at this point

Not only this, but at the highest levels of the sport, an 8 week camp is not just an 8 week camp. No doubt Jones has probably risen to his natural body weight that we’ve heard hovers around 235 or more. After the Bader fight, he was (relatively) uninjured and already in shape for camp and in the proper weight cutting range. For title fights, the last thing one wants to worry about is cutting weight in camp while properly feeding your body. He would probably need a month to a month and a half to get to the correct weight range where it’s purely maintenance until time to start cutting. So we’re looking at 3 to 3.5 months before he can fight, which is not August 6th.

Everyone needs to stop putting endless pressure on this guy and realize that the only mistake he’s made is not satisfying the insatiable appetite of MMA media and fans. He’s a young kid and wants to perform at his best, and not cave to our bloodthirst, and I completely respect that.

Why do I think this is going to culminate in Rashad and Jones coaching opposite each other on TUF?

I totally agreed with the last articles about a bad PPV summer and poor TUF ratings this fight needs to happen. The UFC needs a big blockbuster PPV this summer I’m sure DW will convince the two to make it happen.

I’m surprised Jones doesn’t claim he is just doing everything he can to avoid fighting a friend. He should move to California and become an apartment complex handyman, only returning to face Evans when he learns that Greg Jackson is dying.

Jones is avoiding a matchup with Evans. This is called ducking.

…………(falls immediately asleep into a deep coma) Wake me when something with substance happens

if this is really about money, why is he doing it now? as awesome as jon jones is, it seems a little premature. right now the UFC could basically cut him and what would he do – go to bellator?

who knows what jones is thinking, i guess. extremely disappointed that we aren’t going to see evans/jones, however.

Or this is a situation gone terribly wrong for him.

Either way, get this boy a fight, damnit!

I don’t think this will be a big deal for Jones in the long run. Although it is an indication of the piss poor management he employs.

It really sucks more for Rashad but a win over Davis still leaves him in good position for contendersip. A loss there would be pretty devastating for him I would think.

out of respect for evans. He and his coach know evans would get blown out so they are pulling this stunt so the fight wont happen. Lets not forget before all this drama went down these guys were really close.

as silly as that sounds.

UFC should put Jones vs Rashad back on schedule, Phil Davies needs another fight before he can face someone of Rashad’s caliber.

They should just build Jones a stadium in upstate New York and get this over with.

Jones’ management team are effin’ geniuses!

Now they’re gonna get Rashad pulled out of the Phil Davis fight, and instead make Rashad wait for Jones to come back, maybe until November.

How can Rashad possibly be expected to beat an opponent twice his size off an 18-month layoff?

Jones will literally go off as a 20-1 favorite – and when the fight happens, don’t blink. Rashad will be lucky if he lasts longer than Chad Ochocinco did on that bull.

By the time this match happens someone may find a way to beat Jones and this match will no longer be a title match.

Just checked on Jon Jones to see if he mentioned Rashad at all. His latest tweet
“This is the kind of champion I am,” with a link to the In the Moment show with him and Shogun except he cut out all the Shogun parts. Basically him just talkin about how he’s awesome.

Dude’s an awesome awesome fighter, but I just can’t like his personality. He’s way too much of an arrogant prick.

That Jones could barely close his hand or shake hands without serious pain. This was after the “doesn’t affect striking/grappling” comment. I think John Morgan said it on Junkie Radio, and he’s hardly one to talk out of his ass.