{"id":138376,"date":"2015-04-16T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=138376"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:36:29","slug":"white-belt-jones-bjj-coach-refuses-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-belt-jones-bjj-coach-refuses-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITE BELT! Jones BJJ Coach Refuses Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4.png\" alt=\"Jones\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jones4-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Before anything else he needs to learn the principles of jiu jitsu, understand the rules, the philosophy, he has to spend some time. I can&#8217;t just give him the belt because he&#8217;s Jon Jones. So, about that classic photo where he&#8217;s got the white-belt, I said \u2018Jon, I&#8217;m going to put the white belt on you because you never trained in the gi. You&#8217;re good as hell, you caught a black-belt in a guillotine and all, but that doesn&#8217;t make you a black-belt.&#8217; So, I want him to put in work. It&#8217;s a way of forcing him to put on the gi and take some lessons, the same way my other students do. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair to my students who work one or two years to get a blue-belt for Jon \u2014 because he&#8217;s a UFC star \u2014 to get the blue belt without knowing the philosophy, without knowing who my master is. That&#8217;s how I think and he respects that a lot.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon &#8216;Bones&#8217; Jones has defended his championship several times, once submitting BJJ black-belt Lyoto Machida by way of submission&#8212; and he did it all with a white belt.<\/p>\n<p>Jones walks into the octagon against Anthony &#8220;Rumble&#8221; Johnson with a white belt, but he could likely out grapple Johnson if the fight is taken to the ground. Jones&#8217; trainer Robert Tussa confessed in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/tatame.com\/2011\/03\/25\/The-one-to-blame-for-Jon-Jones-ground-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tatame<\/a> that one of the main reasons Jones is still wearing a white belt is because he doesn&#8217;t train in a gi.<\/p>\n<p>If Jones trained in a gi, what level belt do you think he would be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>REPLAY!UFC President Dana White Forced To Separate VanZant &#038; Herrig at the UFC on FOX 15 Media Day! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\/js\/BrightcoveExperiences.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"myExperience4178276564001\" class=\"BrightcoveExperience\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"560\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"315\" \/><param name=\"playerID\" value=\"4174782329001\" \/><param name=\"playerKey\" value=\"AQ~~,AAADV3-cjCE~,liy9q4yw9hqmtNPERf0MOvxn6JKOOxF3\" \/><param name=\"isVid\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"isUI\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"dynamicStreaming\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"@videoPlayer\" value=\"4178276564001\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. 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