{"id":470518,"date":"2026-02-12T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:32:09","slug":"khabib-named-greatest-ufc-fighter-of-all-time-jon-jones-disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470518\/","title":{"rendered":"Khabib named greatest UFC fighter of all time, Jon Jones disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe GOAT for me is Khabib, and I would put Jon Jones in that category, but I can\u2019t,\u201d Mendez told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n3yJcSpnMsc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ahmad Mahmood Show<\/a>. \u201cIf you\u2019re caught doing something you shouldn\u2019t have been doing, how can you be considered at the top of the league? This is a true sport, and in a true sport you cannot put that person ahead. How many people have won Olympic gold medals and then they find out they cheated and got the medals taken away from them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t know that Jon ever took anything that the rest of them didn\u2019t take, but he got caught for it,\u201d Sonnen said on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhN09KxVCqQ&amp;t=104s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> channel. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to go with no, Jon Jones failing a PED test makes him not the cleanest fighter of all time, (but) it does not disqualify him from being the greatest fighter of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe GOAT for me is Khabib, and I would put Jon Jones in that category, but I can\u2019t,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-470518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}