Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones isn’t a fan of UFC President Dana White.
In recent interviews, White has claimed he hasn’t talked to Jones in over a year. However, Jones says he’s the one who has been giving the UFC figurehead the silent treatment.
“Dana White has reached out to me on at least four occasions, and I haven’t answered any of his calls or any of his text messages. That’s the reason we haven’t spoken,” Jones told the Los Angeles Times.
Jones went on to discuss why he doesn’t want to talk to the UFC president.
“I just feel like when you’re making the company money and you’re a pay-per-view draw and you’re ultimately putting money in his pocket, then you mean a lot to him,” Jones said about White.
“The moment you aren’t those things, you mean nothing to him, and he’s done a decent job of showing that. I felt completely abandoned by him. In a situation when I needed him the most.”
Jones went on to say that when it comes to business, he’d rather talk to Ari Emanuel, of WME-IMG, who Jones calls the real boss of the UFC.
“Unless he (White) has something real pressing to talk to me about, I’d rather just talk to Ari Emanuel,” Jones said. “As of now, I look at Ari as my boss and as Dana as more the face and the voice of UFC.”
