{"id":240641,"date":"2017-06-05T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=240641"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:45:04","slug":"alexander-gustafsson-recent-comments-jon-jones-told-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alexander-gustafsson\/alexander-gustafsson-recent-comments-jon-jones-told-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Gustafsson stands by recent comments about Jon Jones: I told the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of his impressive knockout win over Glover Teixeira, Alexander Gustafsson shared some rather heavy-handed comments about former light heavyweight champion and one-time opponent Jon Jones, suggesting that given his many indiscretions outside the cage, Jones is probably <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/alexander-gustafsson\/alexander-gustafsson-slams-jon-jones-hes-not-champion-not-good-person\/\">not a good person<\/a>. This then prompted <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-goes-off-fcking-dork-alexander-gustafsson-gustafsson-fires-back\/\">a response on Twitter from Jones<\/a>, which in turn influenced Gustafsson to fire back.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/6\/5\/15738524\/the-mma-hour-with-demetrious-johnson-frankie-edgar-alexander\" target=\"_blank\">The MMA Hour<\/a>, Gustafsson discussed this back-and-forth with Jones, and assured he stands by his comments, as he was simply telling the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I stand by it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They had a press conference after the fight [with Teixeira], and they asked me about Jon Jones, and I just told them the way I feel. I told the truth. I&#8217;m not a trash talker. I don&#8217;t do that shit. But they asked me, and I&#8217;m not gonna lie. He&#8217;s probably the greatest fighter we&#8217;ve seen, but as a person, I don&#8217;t like him, I don&#8217;t like how he&#8217;s talking on the stage, doing the cocaine thing. So many young kids are looking up to him, and I just felt like, man, come on. I don&#8217;t support that stuff at all. I don&#8217;t support that stuff at all. I just told the media what I think of him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He&#8217;s been getting caught for everything,&#8221; Gustafsson continued. &#8220;It feels like it&#8217;s just one thing after another. But what we were seeing on the stage with [Daniel Cormier]&#8230; he just said he did cocaine the week before he fought him. He&#8217;s not even embarrassed\u00a0of that stuff, he&#8217;s proud of that stuff. And to me, you don&#8217;t do that \u2013 not being such a good fighter.\u00a0Nobody&#8217;s really been able to compete with him. He&#8217;s been the pound-for-pound best. I believe he is. He hasn&#8217;t lost yet, to anybody. 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