{"id":96215,"date":"2014-05-05T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=96215"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:43:16","slug":"dana-white-fans-overreacting-to-jones-eye-pokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-fans-overreacting-to-jones-eye-pokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: Fans Overreacting To Jones Eye Pokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/jon-jones-breaks-multiple-ufc-records-in-ufc-172-bout\/jon-jones-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95428\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95428\" title=\"Jon Jones\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jon-Jones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jon-Jones.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jon-Jones-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jon-Jones-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI mean, people are always going to go overboard with Jon Jones because they don\u2019t like him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not just taller fighters. Jones has that range and he can do it, but lots of guys do it because that\u2019s how you block punches. So you keep your hands open and you slap punches down. Then guys are rushing in and you\u2019re doing whatever, and guys get poked in the eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGuys have got to start closing their hands, and if you\u2019re going to keep your hands open to block shots, which everybody does, you\u2019ve got to keep your hands closer to your face, not extended in your opponent\u2019s face.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[Jones] poked him in the eye twice, and then the referee warned him about it, and he never did it again. They\u2019re making it sound like he was targeting his eyes and sticking his fingers in his eyes the entire fight and nobody did anything about it. He did it twice, he was warned, and he never did it again in a five-round fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dana White recently told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/05\/dana-white-fans-overreacting-about-ufc-champ-jon-jones-eye-pokes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a> that people are overreacting to the eye-pokes delivered by Jon Jones at UFC 172.<\/p>\n<p>Agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI mean, people are always going to go overboard with Jon Jones because they don\u2019t like him. \u201cIt\u2019s not just taller fighters. Jones has that range and he can do it, but lots of guys do it because that\u2019s how you block punches. So you keep your hands open and you slap punches down. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":95428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[98,8065,8069,8066,255,7907,8067,387,8068,456,483,6099,6238,8057,11,649,716,15,6447,16,4894],"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>Dana White: Fans Overreacting To Jones Eye Pokes | 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\/dana-white-fans-overreacting-to-jones-eye-pokes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White: Fans Overreacting To Jones Eye Pokes | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI mean, people are always going to go overboard with Jon Jones because they don\u2019t like him. \u201cIt\u2019s not just taller fighters. 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