"100%. Jon, you're always welcome to come over to MVP," Paul told Netflix. "We'll get it popping, and we'll get you paid what you deserve." This statement represents Paul's direct invitation to Jones, emphasizing MVP's willingness to sign the fighter and provide financial compensation that Paul believes exceeds what the UFC has offered.
"The GOAT for me is Khabib, and I would put Jon Jones in that category, but I can't," Mendez said on the Ahmed Mahmood show. "If you're caught doing something you shouldn't 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.
I have severe arthritis and most people don't know that. My left hip is covered in arthritis. I actually already qualify for a hip replacement. My last training camp, I went to bed in so much pain. I have a three year old baby boy. I want to use what I have left of my hips to play with his ass.
"Tom's a great athlete, but I do feel like he's a one-trick pony," Jones told the NoScripts Podcast on Wednesday. "I believe that his wrestling and jiu-jitsu is incredibly overrated. He has a beautiful 1-2 [combination]. I got to learn a lot about his patterns in his last fight. That's really about it. That's the one thing that he's setting up real nice."
As Jon's lawyer, I am stunned by the Albuquerque Police Department's decision to charge him in this new case. In the thousands of cases I have handled in my career, I have never seen a case as strange and unwarranted as this one.