{"id":346143,"date":"2020-04-03T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=346143"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:33:18","slug":"jon-anik-on-jon-jones-situation-it-makes-me-very-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-anik-on-jon-jones-situation-it-makes-me-very-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Anik on Jon Jones situation: &#8220;It makes me very sad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Jon Anik says Jon Jones&#8217; latest brush with the law makes him &#8220;very sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Jones was arrested for aggravated DWI and negligent use of a firearm. While Jones was able to avoid jail time, this marks the latest incident in a troubling trend for the UFC light heavyweight champ.<\/p>\n<p>Anik, who like Jones is a father of several girls, finds it hard to witness. The UFC play-by-play man reacted to Jones&#8217; latest issues in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1246078752536305664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Heck of MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a girl dad, I see a father of daughters. It makes me very sad.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jon_Anik?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jon_Anik<\/a> on Jon Jones<\/p>\n<p>Watch full interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s8rwVNJJ7E\">https:\/\/t.co\/s8rwVNJJ7E<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlMvnMN9Uh\">pic.twitter.com\/UlMvnMN9Uh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAFighting\/status\/1246078752536305664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad,&#8221; Anik said of Jones. &#8220;It&#8217;s embarrassing for his daughters mostly. They&#8217;re not getting any younger, and as they get older, and as he looks like he&#8217;s turning over a new leaf and turning the page, becoming an active champion for the UFC as he was doing late 2018 into 2019&#8230; It looked like he was going to be able to toe that straight and narrow, and obviously that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think for me sad is just the emotion because I really do like the guy,&#8221; Anik added. &#8220;If you&#8217;re only judging based on personal interaction, he&#8217;s basically been consistent and genuine with me since I met him in his hotel room in 2011 \u2014 the day he foiled a robbery to beat &#8216;Shogun&#8217; to win the belt. That was the first I met the guy. We&#8217;ve always had a good relationship. I think for me, I&#8217;m a Girl Dad. I see a father of daughters, it makes me very sad. It was hard to watch that officer cam footage, it really was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just hope he can find it within him to turn the sadness and the anger into something positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Jon Anik&#8217;s comments on Jon Jones?<\/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>\u00a0on 4\/3\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Jon Anik says Jon Jones&#8217; latest brush with the law makes him &#8220;very sad.&#8221; Last week, Jones was arrested for aggravated DWI and negligent use of a firearm. While Jones was able to avoid jail time, this marks the latest incident in a troubling trend for the UFC light heavyweight champ. 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