{"id":64192,"date":"2013-07-11T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=64192"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:57:25","slug":"sonnen-think-his-fight-with-jon-jones-may-have-been-stopped-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sonnen-think-his-fight-with-jon-jones-may-have-been-stopped-too-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen Think His fight With Jon Jones May Have Been Stopped Too Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sonnen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sonnen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sonnen\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45012\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI do think it was stopped too early.  I was surprised when they stopped the fight. Anytime you\u2019re in that type of competition, whether you agree with it or you don\u2019t agree with it, you get up and you walk out because those are the rules. I\u2019ve won plenty of fights where they stopped them too early, so it goes both ways.  Yes, it was stopped too early. You\u2019ve got to understand, I stayed to fight.  I walked out of the ring.  That\u2019s more than I can say for Jon Jones. I stayed to fight.  His little piggy ran to the market.  And I\u2019m supposed to somehow be impressed because he got a couple of takedowns?&#8230; I\u2019d sure like to do it again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a recent Q&#038;A at last weekends UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas, Chael Sonnen confirmed to fans that he believes his title shot against Jon Jones was stopped early by the referee. <\/p>\n<p>Agree or disagree? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do think it was stopped too early. I was surprised when they stopped the fight. Anytime you\u2019re in that type of competition, whether you agree with it or you don\u2019t agree with it, you get up and you walk out because those are the rules. I\u2019ve won plenty of fights where they stopped them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[199,483,11,649,15,16],"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>Sonnen Think His fight With Jon Jones May Have Been Stopped Too Early | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/ufcnews\/sonnen-think-his-fight-with-jon-jones-may-have-been-stopped-too-early\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonnen Think His fight With Jon Jones May Have Been Stopped Too Early | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI do think it was stopped too early. 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