Efter att Jon Jones (21-1) varit inblandad i ännu en skandal, då han kraschade en bil och smet ifrån platsen, blev han av med sitt lättviktsbälte. Frank Trigg (21-9) tycker inte att någon ska tycka synd om Jones, då han är en vuxen man.
Trigg menar att han tycker synd om människorna runtomkring Jones, men att han inte tycker synd om Jones.
”Like, I’m on the fence with the Daniel Cormier side, in where people have to stop making excuses for this guy and feeling sorry for this guy. I feel sorry for his Mom and Dad. I feel sorry for his brothers, I feel sorry for his Girlfriend and for their kids. I feel sorry for the team, the team around him. You know the guys at Jackson’s that have to deal with this whole fallout. Don’t feel sorry for Jon Jones. He’s a grown ass man. He’s a man that’s an adult, that pays his own bills and has his own pay cheque, can drive his own car, can make his own decisions. He’s making dumb decisions. So when you make bad decisions you have to pay for them. Sometimes the payment is smaller and easier, and this payment that he’s about to make is going to be huge. It’s going to be crazy for him to try to even think about trying to get out of this,” sa Trigg.
Dana white har sagt att Jones kommer få en omedelbar titelchans när han kommer tillbaka, men Trigg är inte så säker på om det är en bra idé.
”He’s in a difficult place right now. And you know for the UFC – and I think Dana White came out and said ”hey, he’s going to have an immediate title shot when he comes back after everything gets settled. It’s kind of early to say that. You know, we love Dana and the fact that he says everything that comes to his mind, he holds true to his word and he wears his heart on his sleeve, but the reality of it is that it’s too early to say that because, you know he could be doing six months. You know six months in jail in New Mexico. And then to come out and start training again and try to get ready, I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I don’t know if he could pull that off,” sa Trigg.
