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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
UFC Champ Jon Jones got pulled into more controversy on Tuesday night, as comments from his Instagram account towards an MMA fan who had commented negatively towards him were disseminated.
Twitter user @DanielJavid, on Instagram as champagnedanii, made the following comment towards Jones, which brought out a response:
@JonnyBones how can you say you have three times the heart @AlexTheMauler has?
You were carried out of the cage and now u dodge a rematch..
However, throwing at least some doubt on that, the following "selfie" pic was posted by Jones just four hours ago.
Penick's Analysis: Jones has never made comments like this in any other capacity, so there's some part that wants to give him the benefit of the doubt here. That said, it's highly questionable that, given the post put up just 4 hours ago from Jones, his phone was taken and then used to make comments like that towards one random person who had commented to Jones on Twitter. Especially when it was then made on a random picture on Instagram. If those comments were actually made by Jones - and right now he and his team are pushing in hard on the idea that his phone was taken and those were not made by him - it would be hugely disappointing and just completely unacceptable. Right now, he and his camp just have to hope that people buy the story that his phone was stolen.
[Jon Jones art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
-Additional note, the comments Jones' camp are trying to distance themselves from were posted two hours prior to his Instagram selfie. His story's not really holding up that well.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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