{"id":125072,"date":"2015-01-07T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T01:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125072"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:20","slug":"pettis-jones-theres-always-temptation-stay-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/pettis-jones-theres-always-temptation-stay-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pettis on Jones: &#8216;There&#8217;s always temptation, you have to stay strong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Anthony-Pettis-PNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121497\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Anthony-Pettis-PNG.png\" alt=\"Anthony-Pettis-PNG\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Anthony-Pettis-PNG.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Anthony-Pettis-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Anthony-Pettis-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s hard. Jon\u2019s young. He\u2019s my age: 27. You get put in front of a lot of people who care about who you are and there\u2019s some negative energy around that, as well. Some people don\u2019t want to see you do good or want to introduce you to things will bring you down, and it\u2019s kind of up to you. You\u2019ve got to be strong-willed. You\u2019ve got to know what to say \u2018yes\u2019 and \u2018no\u2019 to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor me, I lost my dad to that kind of stuff, so I already knew. I feel like I have a strong willpower not to get mixed up in that stuff. Anybody else, I think it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s definitely there. It\u2019s around you at parties you go to and events you go to. These people have a different level of income and a different amount of money and it might be presented to you in a different way than somebody would in your neighborhood. That\u2019s how it is for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf somebody presented it to me in my neighborhood I\u2019d be like, \u2018No, I don\u2019t want to be like you. You\u2019re not doing as good as I am.\u2019 But then you see people doing way better than you and they\u2019re doing it and presenting it to you in a different way, it\u2019s hard to juggle. You have to be careful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/anthony-pettis-temptation-definitely-there-but-youve-got-to-be-strong-willed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis touched on the Jon Jones situation.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard. Jon\u2019s young. He\u2019s my age: 27. You get put in front of a lot of people who care about who you are and there\u2019s some negative energy around that, as well. Some people don\u2019t want to see you do good or want to introduce you to things will bring you down, and it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":121497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"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>Pettis on Jones: &#039;There&#039;s always temptation, you have to stay strong&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis touched on the Jon Jones situation... 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