{"id":380590,"date":"2021-03-29T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=380590"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:30:45","slug":"rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should&#8217;ve handled his move to heavyweight much better.<\/p>\n<p>After Jones vacated his light heavyweight title, he said he would be moving up to heavyweight. The plan was to face the winner of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/ufc-targeting-stipe-miocic-vs-francis-ngannou-2-for-march-winner-expected-to-fight-jon-jones-this-summer\/\">Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou 2 this summer<\/a>. However, after Ngannou became the new champ, Jones started to say the UFC <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-asks-the-ufc-to-please-just-cut-me-already\/\">needs to pay him what he wants<\/a>. For Evans, he believes &#8220;Bones&#8221; gave up all his negotiating power by already vacating the belt and changing his body for a heavyweight move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jon Jones has already put himself in the position where he doesn\u2019t have that negotiating tool. He\u2019s given up the belt at 205, he\u2019s already put on a ton of weight, a ton of size to fight at heavyweight,&#8221; Evans said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jB7dqNiq04A&amp;ab_channel=NEXGENSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-2 podcast on NexGen Sports<\/a>. &#8220;So right now, if I was Jon\u2019s team, that was something you kind of negotiate before you give up the belt and before you decide to make all these changes in your diet. To me it seems kind of backward for him to now being say show me the money. Show me the money was when he was the UFC 205 champion and then he decided to go up. I don\u2019t know, maybe sometimes Jon just doesn\u2019t say the best things, you know what I\u2019m saying? But hopefully, that fight gets done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rashad Evans certainly has a point about Jones losing his leverage by vacating the light heavyweight title. Yet, Jones vs. Ngannou for the heavyweight title would be one of the biggest fights of all-time, the hope was the UFC would pay up for it. As of right now, however, that doesn&#8217;t appear to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Rashad Evans that Jon Jones is doing things backward in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should&#8217;ve handled his move to heavyweight much better. After Jones vacated his light heavyweight title, he said he would be moving up to heavyweight. The plan was to face the winner of Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou 2 this summer. However, after Ngannou became the new champ, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":278381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,10226,39610],"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>Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should&#039;ve handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should&#039;ve handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rashad-Evans-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cole Shelton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cole Shelton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cole Shelton\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/700e11a4d77666aed250058808e16134\"},\"headline\":\"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\"},\"wordCount\":330,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Jon Jones\",\"Rashad Evans\",\"UFC\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2021\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\",\"name\":\"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should've handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MMA News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"UFC\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/700e11a4d77666aed250058808e16134\",\"name\":\"Cole Shelton\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/cole-shelton\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com","description":"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should've handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com","og_description":"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should've handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":399,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rashad-Evans-2.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Cole Shelton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cole Shelton","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/"},"author":{"name":"Cole Shelton","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/700e11a4d77666aed250058808e16134"},"headline":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC","datePublished":"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/"},"wordCount":330,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Jon Jones","Rashad Evans","UFC"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2021","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/","name":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-30T00:30:45+00:00","description":"Rashad Evans believes Jon Jones and his team should've handled his move to heavyweight much better as they gave up negotiation power.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rashad-evans-suggests-jon-jones-is-doing-things-backwards-in-his-attempt-to-negotiate-with-the-ufc\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MMA News","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"UFC","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Rashad Evans suggests Jon Jones is doing things \u201cbackwards\u201d in his attempt to negotiate with the UFC"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/700e11a4d77666aed250058808e16134","name":"Cole Shelton","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/cole-shelton\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}