"The GOAT for me is Khabib, and I would put Jon Jones in that category, but I can't," Mendez said on the Ahmed Mahmood show. "If you're caught doing something you shouldn't have been doing, how can you be considered at the top of the league? This is a true sport, and in a true sport you cannot put that person ahead.
I have severe arthritis and most people don't know that. My left hip is covered in arthritis. I actually already qualify for a hip replacement. My last training camp, I went to bed in so much pain. I have a three year old baby boy. I want to use what I have left of my hips to play with his ass.
"I think my most immediate goal is to try to be on the White House card," Jones said in a videotaped appearance on the podcast, released in full on Thursday. Yet asked if he'd spoken to White about it, "I'm giving Dana his space," he replied.
"Tom's a great athlete, but I do feel like he's a one-trick pony," Jones told the NoScripts Podcast on Wednesday. "I believe that his wrestling and jiu-jitsu is incredibly overrated. He has a beautiful 1-2 [combination]. I got to learn a lot about his patterns in his last fight. That's really about it. That's the one thing that he's setting up real nice."
"Let me ask you, what do you think Jon would do in the next couple of months that would make me trust putting him on the White House card?" White said. "So I already said that I don't trust him, and you're asking me what could he do for me to trust him in the next three months? You don't trust him!"
As Jon's lawyer, I am stunned by the Albuquerque Police Department's decision to charge him in this new case. In the thousands of cases I have handled in my career, I have never seen a case as strange and unwarranted as this one.