Jones on Sonnen: “That guy is a joke,”
by Ben Fowlkes | source: mmajunkie.com
“Styles make these matchups,” Jones told MMAjunkie.com when asked who might be left for him after Dan Henderson. “Phil Davis lost to Rashad, and I beat Rashad. But that doesn’t mean Phil Davis won’t give me the fight of my life. Or Gustafsson. He’s tall, I’m tall, and he’s got long arms. Maybe that would be interesting to see. Or Glover Teixiera. He hits hard. Maybe that would be interesting. Styles make matchups. There’s guys in my gym right now that aren’t in the UFC that make me sweat and bleed. So you can’t say I’ve cleaned out the division – because I haven’t. I simply haven’t.”
“But as a businessman, the [fight against Machida at UFC 140] had the lowest pay-per-view sales of all the fights I had in 2011. So it’s just like, I don’t see why it would benefit me to fight him again. … I have nothing to gain there. I beat him once, and it was the lowest pay-per-view numbers I had the whole year. So why would I fight someone that no one really wants to see when there’s all these other guys working their hearts out to get a chance at me? Why do they get skipped [by] a guy who lost already?”
“That guy is a joke,” he said of Sonnen, adding that, regardless of how it may have appeared, he didn’t feel he’d been baited into a war of words when he responded on Twitter. “It’s not getting baited if you know what you’re up against. My emotions weren’t involved in that.”