Forward of one of many greatest fights of his blended martial arts profession, Jon Jones apologized to his Spanish followers for the redundant identify of black denims at his native Hollister outlet.
In a matter of hours, ‘Bones’ will put his undisputed heavyweight world title on the road when he meets former two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic within the UFC 309 primary occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Forward of his return to the Octagon, Jones sat down with Nina-Marie Daniele for an additional interview that tackled a few of the greatest subjects on the minds of combat followers — like if he’s realized any new Spanish phrases since their final dialog.
“Uh, let’s see… I do know black is negro,” Jones stated. “How do you say black in Spanish? Oh yeah, negro. I’m at Hollister in Albuquerque, and so they identify the denims ‘Black Negro.’ That’s all you want.”
That received fun out of Daniele, however ‘Bones’ shortly apologized for Hollister’s redundancy and the tongue-in-cheek racism that got here with it.
“I’m sorry to all my Spanish followers on the market, my Mexican followers,” Jones added. “I used to be appalled. I’m like, ‘How dare they?’
Clearly not being severe together with his apology, Daniele known as him out which prompted Jones so as to add:
“I used to be offended, however yeah, I used to be an fool.”
Jon Jones appears to be like so as to add to his legacy by taking out the heavyweight GOAT
It was all only a little bit of enjoyable between Jones and Daniele, however on Saturday evening, it’ll be all enterprise as ‘Bones’ makes his first look contained in the Octagon since scoring a quickfire submission victory over Ciryl Gane at UFC 285.
Standing in Jones’ manner of one other profitable title protection is Miocic — thought-about by many to be the best heavyweight fighter of all time. Miocic enters the bout as the one man to carry the division’s high prize twice and holds the report for many consecutive and complete title defenses in heavyweight historical past.
