And how do you know he's playing fake now - at a time when he doesn't even have to?
"You know what we do, trash talk is part of the game. Not to say what was said before the fight was just to hype it, there was some real animosity between Daniel and I. But when it's all said and done, Daniel Cormier has my utmost respect as a fighter and a person. The way he carries himself is how all champions should. I know in my first fight I mocked him for crying and said I would do it again, but that's not who I want to be. Fans are brutal enough. They(the fans) have no idea the amount of energy and sacrifices that are made to be at this level. I do, and because of that, I'm not going to mock DC and I ask my fans to do the same".
As I said before, he's a bad public speaker. You're skipping the fact that he said that he admires Daniel as a man and as a father, and that he aspires to be like him. It wasn't completely filled with things that could be construed as passive aggression.
bad public speaker=letting people know how you really feel when you're trying to come off as respectful.
So you went from thinking he was always genuine to thinking he's always fake? The answer is somewhere in the middle, in my opinion, and extreme, set-in-stone opinions regarding just about anything are dangerous, and rarely accurate.
I'm not saying it's black and white. I do however think when Jon knows he's in an interview that will be seen, he says what he thinks is more pc. Take for example his espn interview with DC the first time. Jon Jones when he knew he was on air, acted one way. Then, when off air and unknown he was still being recorded, just a minute later Jones switches and reveals his true opinion. Whatever the opinion, fine, but I can see multiple times where he has contradicted himself.
How genuine do you think Jon is after recent revelations?
Big what if...
HUH?
Point to where I said he was overall a genuine guy. If anything, I said he was never genuine until he said nice things about Daniel.How genuine do you think Jon is after recent revelations?
Are you under the impression that everything said before a fight (to sell the fight and affect your opponent) is more genuine than everything said after a fight?
I also never said he changed. I specified that I thought the nice things he said about Cormier were genuine. Didn't mean he was a clean athlete or even a good guy.
MMA fans like to make these big jumps when it comes to their opinions of fighters, and defending their opinions. If you defend one single thing about a fighter, or even question someone else's assumption, for some reason they take it as an endorsement of everything the fighter has ever done. As you can see above, I never said that Jones was a genuine person. You projected that opinion onto me because I disagreed with your assumption. If anything, Jones popping solidifies what I said above, which is why I think your bump and attempt to "told you so" me was ineffective.
