Evans on Jones: “If pushed, he will quit. I see his heart.”

December 06, 2011 | Tim | Comments 0

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As former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans prepares for his upcoming main event fight against Phil Davis at UFC on Fox 2, it’s clear he still has his sights firmly set on the man currently holding the title, Jon Jones.

There has been no love lost between the two former teammates, and on a Chicago radio appearance Tuesday night on WSCR 670 AM, Evans reacted with some of his strongest words to date about “Bones.”

After host Laurence Holmes brought up Jones’ recent quote about Evans having no chin, Evans responded:

You know he’s just a young dude that thinks he can whup me, but he knows what happened in training, he knows what happened, and obviously he’s not trying…he’s not in any hurry to fight me or it would have happened already.

After being pressed by Holmes to expand on what took place in their training together, Evans continued:

There was a couple times where, you know, I was able to pretty much just do what I want. He was my little brother, you know? Sometimes he was my son. He was underneath me. And that’s the truth of the matter. One time we were training and he begged me to get up off of him and stop smashing him up because he couldn’t get up…And I told him at the time I said “If you quit now, you’re going to quit in a fight,” and I made him work his way back up…That’s his heart. If pushed, he will quit. And I know how to make him quit and he knows that. I see his heart.

Holmes asked Evans if he’d look forward to a title fight with Jones if he can defeat Davis.

Yeah, I would love it, I would love it because I would love nothing more than to put him in his place, and just let him know that [he] didn’t respect the process of how things should be done. He’s very disrespectful so he needs to learn from it

The entire interview with Evans on 670AM the Score in Chicago can be found here in hour three of the podcast.

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