{"id":386950,"date":"2022-04-29T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=386950"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:50:08","slug":"chael-sonnen-praises-ufc-rival-jon-jones-for-doing-a-lot-of-things-that-nobody-else-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/chael-sonnen-praises-ufc-rival-jon-jones-for-doing-a-lot-of-things-that-nobody-else-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen Praises UFC Rival Jon Jones for Doing &#8220;A Lot of Things that Nobody Else Can Do\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple-time former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen has always had an interesting relationship with all-time great Jon Jones. Both men have gone back and forth on social media several times in recent years, and some nasty words have been exchanged on both sides over the years. Moreover, they also shared the cage together back when Jones was the undisputed light heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their rivalry both inside and outside the cage, there has always seemingly been a mutual respect for the other and this has slipped out on occasion. Notably, in a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Sonnen talked about how he was still very much invested in the \u2018Jon Jones experiment\u2019 up in the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/lets-settle-it-in-the-ring-jake-paul-takes-no-prisoners-in-expletive-fueled-rant-on-ufcs-michael-bisping-and-jorge-masvidal\/\">\u2018Let\u2019s F****** Settle It in the Ring\u2019- Jake Paul Takes No Prisoners in Expletive-Fueled Rant on UFC\u2019s Michael Bisping and Jorge Masvidal<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Jon Jones always has Chael Sonnen&#8217;s attention<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018The American Gangster\u2019 revealed that despite the long-drawn talks for a move up to heavyweight by Jones, he was still interested to see how \u2018Bones\u2019 would perform. According to Sonnen, Jon Jones possessed skills unlike many others, and in turn, could do things no one else can.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this variable that makes Jon Jones the ultimate prizefighter in the eyes of UFC fans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-385687 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image02-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image02-2.png 803w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image02-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image02-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image02-2-768x770.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis Jon Jones experiment hasn\u2019t fallen deaf on me yet. I am still very into this. If this was any other athlete than Jon Jones, and you had any one of three clues, I would tell you he\u2019s going to lose. For example, he hasn\u2019t fought in two years, whoever that person is, it\u2019s not going to be a good night, history would back me up on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cIf you tell me that an athlete is going to participate, who is now at a new gym in a completely different state than he resides, I\u2019m going to tell you the outcome isn\u2019t going to be wonderful. Jon has all of those things stacked up against him, but the problem is he\u2019s Jon Jones. He\u2019s done a lot of things that nobody else can do.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-explains-why-hes-still-high-on-jon-jones-heavyweight-move-despite-delay-hes-done-a-lot-of-things-nobody-can-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-386054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/sonnen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/sonnen.jpg 576w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/sonnen-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The respect Chael Sonnen has for what Jon Jones has accomplished inside the cage is always on display when he talks about his career. Like Sonnen, a large majority of the fan base can\u2019t wait to see how Jones looks in his heavyweight debut that is slated for September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple-time former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen has always had an interesting relationship with all-time great Jon Jones. Both men have gone back and forth on social media several times in recent years, and some nasty words have been exchanged on both sides over the years. Moreover, they also shared the cage together back when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":385686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}