{"id":346352,"date":"2020-04-06T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=346352"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:28:01","slug":"anthony-smith-expects-jon-jones-issues-outside-the-cage-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anthony-smith-expects-jon-jones-issues-outside-the-cage-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith expects Jon Jones&#8217; issues outside the cage to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Smith believes his former opponent, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, will continue to find trouble outside the cage until he decides to make some real changes.<\/p>\n<p>Smith shared his take on Jones&#8217; ongoing personal issues, which most recently manifested in the form of a DWI arrest, during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/4\/6\/21208854\/anthony-smith-i-promise-you-jon-jones-is-not-going-to-change-until-he-wants-to-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former light heavyweight title challenger weighed in on Jones&#8217; issues by drawing on his own previous brushes with the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done the things that Jon Jones has done&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;I\u2019ve been in a drinking and driving accident when I was the driver. I\u2019ve gotten multiple DUIs. I\u2019ve been in jail before. None of that stuff changed until I was ready to change. That was it. I don\u2019t hide it. Jon is trying to hide from everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil you can be a man with your head held high and say, &#8216;You know what? I f*cked up and I\u2019m done being a f*ck-up,&#8217; nothing is going to change,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;You see the fans saying, \u2018The UFC needs to do this. The UFC needs to do that.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t matter what they do. Until he\u2019s ready to change himself and it\u2019s clich\u00e9, it\u2019s every self-help book you\u2019ve ever read your whole life, but it\u2019s the truth. I didn\u2019t change until I was ready to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know how this story\u2019s going to go. He\u2019s going to do his little rehab thing. He\u2019s going to come out and do a 45-minute interview. He\u2019s going to apologize. He\u2019s going talk about how he\u2019s going to change. He\u2019s going to say he appreciates everybody. And then we\u2019re not going to hear from him for a little while.Then he\u2019s going to fight, he\u2019s going to win and he\u2019s going to thank everyone for sticking with him the entire time, and then a year later, we\u2019ll be starting over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, Anthony Smith isn&#8217;t sure what it will take to convince Jon Jones he needs to make some changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what mine was and I know what it took for me to change but it\u2019s not losing his title,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;It\u2019s not financial, cause he\u2019s already lost a sh*t ton of money. It\u2019s not his public perception cause he\u2019s already trashed that a couple times. I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s a lot of stuff going on and there\u2019s a lot of demons he\u2019s got to deal with. At this point, nothing Jon Jones does would ever surprise me. It\u2019s crazy.&#8221;<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Despite his critique of Jones, Smith is adamant that he&#8217;s not rooting against the champ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what Jon Jones says,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It matters what Jon Jones does. What he says and what his actions are two completely different things. I don\u2019t give a sh*t what he says \u2014 I care about what he does \u2014 and I\u2019m not rooting against Jon Jones.\u201d<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Anthony Smith?<\/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\/6\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Smith believes his former opponent, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, will continue to find trouble outside the cage until he decides to make some real changes. 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