Donald Cerrone Reveals He Nearly Had Fight With Jon Jones

You know they say Donald Cerrone will fight anyone…

The Jackson-Wink gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico is known as one of the most successful in modern mixed martial arts. Having trained such talents as former champions Holly Holm, Jon Jones, Rashad Evans, Andrei Arlovski, Frank Mir and Georges St-Pierre, Jackson’s has seen some of the best competition at the peak of their fighting careers pass through the doors and hit the mats. Former lightweight title contender and current UFC welterweight Donald Cerrone also spends his camps at Jackson-Wink, and has most recently been training UFC legend BJ Penn for his UFC 199 comeback.

With so many high calibre fighters, often competing in the same weight classes, partners in the gym have to face the reality of fighting each other soon enough Rashad Evans and Jon Jones had a massive feud, eventually leading to ‘Suga’ leaving the ABQ gym and joining the Blackzilians. Alisair Overeem recently knocked out Andrei Arlovski at UFC Rotterdam, but reports indicate both men will remain at Jackson-Wink. Two fighters you might not expect to have beef are ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Bones,’ but it happened according to Cerrone.

Speaking during a recent podcast episode of ‘Fighter and The Kid,’ the entertaining Donald Cerrone told a tale of a time he had beef with ex-UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. As transcribed by FOX Sports:

“Me and him have plenty of disputes all the time. We almost had at it, him and I at Jackson’s,” Cerrone said. “This is before all the wild Jon (stuff) came out and I spoke about him being wild and he was like ‘what the (expletive) with you putting me out like that?’ and I was like ‘what’s up mother (expletive)?’ but that’s behind the scenes.”

“What had happened was all the UFC cameras were there that day and I came at Jon like ‘what’s up?’ and he comes at me, puts his God hat on and got to work. He just said ‘Cowboy, I just don’t understand, I’m so nice to you, always try to help you and this is how you treat me, this is how you want to come at me? I remember pointing at him like ‘you mother (expletive)’.”

“Jon and I are cool now. We hang out and we’re over all that,” Cerrone said.