{"id":113098,"date":"2014-09-21T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=113098"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:31:10","slug":"overeem-on-injuring-jones-i-felt-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/overeem-on-injuring-jones-i-felt-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Overeem On Injuring Jones &#8220;I Felt Terrible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alistair-Overeem.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alistair-Overeem.png\" alt=\"Alistair Overeem\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alistair-Overeem.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alistair-Overeem-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alistair-Overeem-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alistair Overeem has been on the receiving end of some harsh criticism lately after it was revealed that he injured Jon Jones while Jones was preparing for his UFC 178 fight against Daniel Cormier.  <\/p>\n<p>The two men were sparring, and Jones ended up getting injured and tearing his meniscus.  Anthony Johnson was the first fighter to speak out about how Overeem goes too hard in training.  Then UFC President Dana White said that Overeem had no business training with Jones because Jones was fighting Cormier, a short wrestler, and Overeem is a tall kickboxer.<\/p>\n<p>Overeem joined Ariel Helwani on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/9\/20\/6154323\/alistair-overeem-on-injuring-jon-jones-in-sparring-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a> to discuss the incident, saying that there &#8220;Never has been&#8221; any bad blood between him and Bones.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And I felt terrible man, because I was looking forward to that fight. Of course obviously [Jones]\u2019s had a great career, he\u2019s a great athlete, but I also like him as a friend. So, you never want to do that to your buddies that are your teammates, because you feel terrible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/evan-stoumbelis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Evan Stoumbelis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Overeem has been on the receiving end of some harsh criticism lately after it was revealed that he injured Jon Jones while Jones was preparing for his UFC 178 fight against Daniel Cormier. The two men were sparring, and Jones ended up getting injured and tearing his meniscus. Anthony Johnson was the first fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":111323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[90,257,9,395,483,11,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Overeem On Injuring Jones &quot;I Felt Terrible&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/overeem-on-injuring-jones-i-felt-terrible\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Overeem On Injuring Jones &quot;I Felt Terrible&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alistair Overeem has been on the receiving end of some harsh criticism lately after it was revealed that he injured Jon Jones while Jones was preparing for his UFC 178 fight against Daniel Cormier. 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