Sterling appears to be like again at Jones recollections
“Suspect No. 1, and I received to see this primary hand, was Jon Jones,” Sterling advised Demetrious Johnson. “After we had been in school collectively, and he was within the UFC, and I used to be nonetheless at college at Courtland… a way, some how, I messaged him on MySpace, and he’s coaching proper down the f*cking block from my school.
“I hit him up like, ‘Yo, I see you doing the grappling stuff and the preventing, and I at all times thought it was cool. I believe I might be good at this. Can I test it out? How do I test it out?’ He was like, ‘I’m coaching right here,’ I used to be like, ‘Bro, I am going to high school proper right here.’ He was like, ‘Come down,’ so I got here down and he was like… ‘Man, you’re not going to point out up.’ I used to be like, alright, wager. I confirmed up the subsequent day, and I haven’t stopped coaching since then.
“However I’d see this man, per week earlier than his battle, him on the bar… going nuts. In my head, I used to be like, no intercourse, no ingesting, no smoking, and I simply thought the way in which of [Mike] Tyson and [Muhammad] Ali and people guys. That’s what they mentioned, don’t do it if you wish to be a champion. I’m like, OK. After which I’d see him and was like, I don’t get it — after which that weekend he would simply homicide a man on Worldwide TV. I used to be like, ‘He’s doing one thing proper.’”
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