{"id":337088,"date":"2020-01-03T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=337088"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:01:44","slug":"chael-sonnen-jon-jones-claiming-to-be-230-with-a-six-pack-is-beyond-peculiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-jon-jones-claiming-to-be-230-with-a-six-pack-is-beyond-peculiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen: Jon Jones claiming to be &#8216;230 with a six-pack&#8217; is &#8216;beyond peculiar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Speaking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nMnPGUKt6Bs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a> ahead of his UFC 247 title fight with Dominick Reyes, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones divulged that he&#8217;s now living with his nutritionist, and that he&#8217;s packed on a bit of extra size.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, I\u2019m living with my nutritionist and I\u2019ve built a home gym in my garage and I feel really, really good right now,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;I\u2019m 230 with a six-pack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jones has recently been flirting with the idea of a move to the heavyweight division, but he\u2019ll first have to defend his 205-pound title against Reyes. Given that fact \u2014 and the fact that Jones has had some run-ins with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in the past \u2014 MMA analyst Chael Sonnen finds the champ&#8217;s comments &#8220;beyond peculiar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen aired his suspicions on his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9IsXhjbhHn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201c230 pounds with a six-pack&quot; Jon Jones...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9IsXhjbhHn4?start=73&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Jon made a couple of statements in this,\u201d Sonnen began. \u201cHe said \u2018I\u2019m living with my nutritionist and I\u2019m 230 with a six-pack.\u2019 Now who knows if that\u2019s just gamesmanship, and that\u2019s just fun. But is beyond peculiar if we take him at his word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jon Jones goes about 218 [pounds],\u201d Sonnen continued, sharing what he claims is Jones&#8217; usual weight between fights. \u201cJon Jones, when he\u2019s not training, when he\u2019s totally stagnant, goes about 225. Now, that was a juiced-up Jon Jones. That\u2019s a Jon Jones who documentation and science tells us was on steroids. So a Jon Jones that\u2019s come off of steroids\u2026 Look, steroids work in this way: bigger, stronger, faster, in that order. The very first thing you do is they make you bigger. So when you come off of steroids, naturally, you gotta get a little bit smaller. So for him to say he\u2019s now at 230 and has a six-pack \u2014 and again that good be gamesmanship, I\u2019m just saying if this was accurate information \u2014 while living with a nutritionist, you\u2019re kind of thinking Jon, this is really obvious. Fire that nutritionist!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen then took things a step further, suggesting that if Jones was being sincere about his mass gain, he could be using performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Why is your weight going up when you\u2019ve got a signed contract to be going at 205 pounds?&#8221; Sonnen asked of Jones. &#8220;Why would you be living with a nutritionist who\u2019s putting weight on you and you\u2019re doing interviews about a weight class that you\u2019re not contracted to be in? You\u2019ve got to go the other way. It\u2019s just odd. Then when you throw the six-pack in&#8230; This is basic physiology, but you cannot gain muscle without gaining fat. For every pound of muscle there\u2019s <em>x<\/em> amount of fat that your body has to put on. Then when it\u2019s time for competition you can try to take the fat off and hope that muscle stays. But you don\u2019t put on muscle without putting on fat unless you\u2019re doing something superhuman, which would take you out of a regular human species physiology \u2014 known as steroids! So why he put that interview out is beyond my ability to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Chael Sonnen? How do you think Jon Jones will react?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> on 1\/3\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a press conference ahead of his UFC 247 title fight with Dominick Reyes, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones divulged that he&#8217;s now living with his nutritionist, and that he&#8217;s packed on a bit of extra size. &#8220;Right now, I\u2019m living with my nutritionist and I\u2019ve built a home gym in my garage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":296816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,39610],"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>Chael Sonnen: Jon Jones claiming to be &#039;230 with a six-pack&#039; is &#039;beyond peculiar&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones says he&#039;s beefed up to 230 pounds with six-pack. 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