Jon Jones not wrong for taking shots at Chael Sonnen’s legal troubles

Daniel Cormier might not like what he’s viewing in between Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen, but he’s not automatically in disagreement.

Cormier, a previous two-division UFC champion, is not stunned to see Jones using shots at Sonnen for his current authorized troubles, introducing to a storied social media feud involving the two MMA stars and former foes.

Cormier, who’s friends with Sonnen and had a heated rivalry with Jones when he was an energetic fighter, really sided with “Bones,” and thinks it’s truthful video game for Jones to come soon after Sonnen.

“Chael, my boy, is going to say whichever he feels like expressing, and in that, you open up on your own up for that rebuttal if by chance you uncover oneself in a predicament,” Cormier explained on his YouTube channel. “Unfortunately, Chael finds himself in a situation, which I have no knowledge to talk on. …

“Now, the man that sat up there for years, Chael, has authorized himself to be judged by a guy that’s actually been the butt of everyone’s jokes for so lengthy. So I questioned myself, Are we grownups? Indeed, we are. But in this instance, do I imagine Jones would act like a single? Totally not.

“Is he mistaken for not acting like a single? Certainly not. … I’m not shocked that Jones is using pictures at Chael correct now due to the fact just about every time that Jones found himself in that placement, and that was a multitude of situations, Chael was there to choose.”

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Sonnen, who retired from MMA competition in 2019, currently faces 11 battery charges for alleged Las Vegas hotel altercation. He’s also currently being accused in lawsuit of attacking few in Las Vegas “without provocation.”

Jones, who conquer Sonnen by to start with-spherical TKO at UFC 159 in April 2013 just after a coaching stint on “The Final Fighter” fact series, also has a extended historical past with the law that dates from his early days as UFC winner.

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Most not long ago, Jones was arrested in Las Vegas in September on expenses of misdemeanor battery domestic violence and felony injuring and tampering with a auto. In December, Jones reached a plea offer with prosecutors, ensuing in a dismissal of the domestic violence demand. He also pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge of destruction of property.

Cormier said he doesn’t definitely delight in viewing feuds get this private. He’s not frightened to get in heated confrontations when the predicament calls for it, but thinks there ought to be boundaries to rivalries.

“Fellas, are we grownups or are we kids?” Cormier mentioned. “What occurred to turning the other cheek? What happened to having the higher road? These two have not taken the high road in just one instance in regards to each other. But here’s the matter: In specific predicaments, you variety of have to appear the other way.

“In all the instances that I had my issues in the make up to the rivalry with Jones, we tried using not to be particular. At periods it acquired a little bit personal and he claimed he’d go to my household and smack my wife in the ass, and I stated no one wants to smack his wife’s flat ass. We got a bit private, but which is as significantly as we went. But in terms of his problems with the regulation and everything, I generally tried to say, ‘Hey, gentleman. Do improved. Get proper.’ You do not wish that variety of negative on nobody.”