After defeat by Klein in July 2022, Jones and UFC mutually agreed to not sign a new deal.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on what alternative path he could have chosen, Jones gave an honest appraisal.<\/p>\n
“I remember sitting down in my coach’s office after the whole thing in London because I was in a mess,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
“My one coach said to me, ‘Look I think you need to go somewhere else and work with someone else because I don’t think I can give you what you need’.<\/p>\n
“I said to him in tears at the time, ‘Please just stick with me, as long as you boys are in my corner I’ll go through anything’. <\/p>\n
“They’ve stuck by me since then, and I can’t thank the boys enough. <\/p>\n
“As long as those boys are there for me I’ll give them as much as they give me and I couldn’t ask for anyone else to stand by me and help me reach the top.”<\/p>\n
For Jones there really was no other possibility than to stick to chasing his UFC dreams.<\/p>\n
“I had an acknowledgment on this camp when I was running through the mountains, and I chose this life.<\/p>\n
“I know it’s a weird thing to say, but every day I wake up I choose this life.”<\/p>\n
Jones admitted the easy thing would have been to go and get a job. <\/p>\n
“I could literally at any time just think, no, I’m done, and get a different job that pays on a weekly basis,” he added.<\/p>\n
“After I left London I didn’t get paid for two years, I racked up credit card debt, and family members and friends told me to quit.<\/p>\n
“I had a family business I could have gone into, done more with school. <\/p>\n
“But for me fighting is what’s in my blood and fighting is what I want to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After defeat by Klein in July 2022, Jones and UFC mutually agreed to not sign a new deal.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-552754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552754","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=552754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}