Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier
Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier have one of the longest running — and loudest mouthed — feuds going in the UFC.
Not only do they want to physically fight each other, they also spend an astounding amount of time trash talking each other.
Sarah got some of her literary colleagues to analyze the quality of said trash talk in a feature for Fightland.
To read who’s got the better insults, click here.
Filed under Comedy, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Jon Jones and a cat
Jon Jones is the UFC Light Heavyweight champion and one of the most badass fighters on the planet.
He’s also a little bit internet-nutty about his four cats.
As proof of this, Sarah went through Jones’ Instagram account to find all the posts he made about his cats. There were a lot of them.
To see Jon Jones’ 75 Instagram cat posts from 2014 ranked, head over to Fightland by going here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Jon Jones
UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones used to be sponsored by Nike.
It was kinda a big deal.
He isn’t sponsored by Nike anymore.
This is a big deal for different reasons.
Sarah wrote about it for Fightland. To read the story go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Jon Jones at MGM Grand
When Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier got into a peculiarly promo-y fight during a pre-match press conference recently it was just one in a long list of strange incidents to take place in the MGM Grand Lobby.
With that in mind, Sarah tracked down a number of pro fight-related fights which have taken place at the Grand.
To read about them head over to Fightland by going here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Jon Jones kicks Lyoto Machida
UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones beat the snot out of challenger Lyoto Machida last night at UFC 140 in Toronto.
Part of the reason for his victory? Hanging around in the Ball’s Falls Conservation Area in the Niagara region.
That’s right “Ball’s Falls.”
Huh. Huh. Balls.
The toughest man in the world* went to the conservation park in Lincoln, Ontario, about an hour southeast of Toronto, for a session of pre-match meditation.
Said Jones at a press conference after UFC 140, “It was really beautiful, but it was so cold out there I could only mediate for about maybe 15 minutes because I didn’t want to get sick. I’m standing next to this waterfall to the side of this like stream. It was just so cold, it was way colder by the water.
Ball's Falls lower falls (Ball drop falls?)
“I got a good 12 minutes in but the job was done. We felt really refreshed and our spirits were lifted on the ride back to the hotel. So mission complete.”
What we want to know is, was this at the scenic lower falls section? And was Jones inspired by the exposed Silurian and Ordovician rock strata he could see there? In fact, if he was so inspired, is he really a normal human? Or is he some earth elemental druid warrior who has manifested to show us the true path?
And what about the poor Conservation Authority staff? They mostly just have to deal with the bridezillas who rent out The Big Barn. What’s going to happen this summer when a bunch of pilgrims in Tapout shirts start Mecca-ing their way to Ball’s Falls to “Ommmm” under trees.
It’s all your fault Jon Jones.
* GSP’s hurt, Anderson Silva’s getting old, and Jose Aldo’s a relative runt, so yeah, Jones’ is totally the toughest, well, not counting Junior Dos Santos.
Also, Jones’ last three wins were all against ex-champs — Machida, Rampage Jackson and Shogun Rua — he’s facing top guys, not whoever’s left in the division, so that counts for something, too.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Travel
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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