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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Rashad Evans has been highly critical of his former friend and protege Jon Jones over the last year, attacking his public persona and calling him out on being a very different person behind the scenes. The two somewhat buried the hatchet into their fight at UFC 145, with the talk growing thin after such a long time, but in the wake of Jones' DWI in New York, Evans certainly had some thoughts on the subject.
However, while it wasn't something that necessarily surprised Evans, his response to the situation may itself be surprising to some.
"Honestly, it's hard to really say if it surprised me," Evans said on Tuesday's "UFC Tonight" on Fuel TV (transcribed by MMAMania.com. "I just hate to see that happen to him, or to anybody, for that matter. Some people really could have got hurt. Thankfully, nobody did get hurt. Hopefully, he learned his lesson from it, and he can continue to move on and be a great Champion."
Penick's Analysis: It's a nice sentiment from Evans, a former rival and also former friend of Jones. With no one being hurt, the key - as we've stressed here since it happened - is that it doesn't happen again. So long as Jones moves on from this and it's not something that repeats itself this can be an unfortunate and regrettable footnote in his history.
[Rashad Evans art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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