Red Corner MMA<\/a> what he admires most about McGregor fighting again is that he could have chosen to walk away from the game and live a life of luxury instead.<\/p>\n\u201cConor doesn\u2019t need to fight,\u201d Jones said. \u201cHe has everything, and I respect the fact that he\u2019s coming back to fight so much because it shows that he\u2019s a fighter in his heart. Me, I\u2019ve got to a certain level, and I decided to walk away. Conor, he\u2019s back and it just shows how much he loves the sport and shows that he\u2019s still that fighter despite having so much success. I\u2019m rooting for him, I\u2019m proud of him, and I think he\u2019s just great.\u201d<\/p>\n
As much as Jones and McGregor have been tied together due to their successes, they\u2019re also notorious for their outside-of-the-cage failures. The UFC superstars have compiled quite the rap sheets, with Jones having arrests for a hit-and-run, a DWI, and domestic violence on his record, and McGregor having gone to court for assault, assault and battery, and sexual assault, with the latter being resolved in a civil suit that resulted in McGregor having been found liable.<\/p>\n
Still, Jones feels a kinship with McGregor and believes his athletic and business accomplishments are to be respected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe businessman that he\u2019s been for our sport, he teaches fighters that we can be more than just fighters,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWe can take our brand and do something special with it, which he did with Proper 12 whisky and everything. I\u2019m proud of Conor, I\u2019m a massive fan. I think I will be for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has had a lot of struggles, ups and downs, just like I have, but he always gets back on his feet, which is a huge example to so many out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor has a dedicated fan in Jon Jones. During the UFC\u2019s boom period in the 2010s, McGregor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-777142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}