Haters gonna hate.
Truth is, what we do at home and what we do "in the office" is never as intertwined as it is for celebrities. People (and apparently you Nate) think that Jon Jones wants us to believe that he is perfect and has never done or will never do any wrong, and that is quite simply never an impression or "vibe" of him that I've picked up on. Ever since he was an up and coming fighter, he has always acknowledge a need and a desire to keep working, keep training, keep trying to improve, to push to stay ahead... I mean are we simply supposed to forget that he is human because he's a world champion and a celeb.??
Clearly - like I said before - a lot of people must have put Jon Jones on some artificial pedestal that I don't understand because that standard he seems to be held to, just doesn't make sense to me. The guy works his ass off to train and learn and practice and improve to maintain his stranglehold that he has right now on his title. It's laughable to me how easily that is dismissed or deflected or just simply ignored because his personal life has had some backwards steps, like most all of us have had.
If you've ever bothered to set aside personal dislike for the man or whatever prejudices you have, you'll know that he is very much aware of not only his potential, but also of the chance that it might not be fulfilled, if he doesn't make sure to maintain it. That is not a proclamation of being perfect. That is not a statement of godliness. That is not declaration of infallibility. What it is, is exactly the opposite... it's an understanding that complaisance and failure to focus can derail ANY OF US. Even the most talented, even the hardest working, even the most gifted.
People will call out him for being fake for as long as he is in the limelight. But I will tell you this and please believe it... I have never once known or witnessed somebody who is "fake" who has achieved the pinnacle of anything. Not sport, not business, not personal success. Sure you can fake your way into having friends, you can fake your way into gaining admiration, you can even fake your way into a lucrative career. Jon Jones however has achieved the absolute pinnacle of what he does. Read it again. The summit. THERE IS NOBODY BETTER THAN HIM.
I dunno... maybe there is some subconscious human desire that I can't relate to, that wishes to see those as the peak, come down tumbling. All I know is if this whole "faking" thing is working so well for him, maybe the others who he has bested should start trying it, because whatever they're doing that's so praise-worthy and moral sure as fuck isn't working.
I'm not saying I'm proud of what JBJ has done, but he'll pay the price. He'll catch heat and catch hate and lose money over it, maybe even lose some friends and fans.... But really it's just another stumbling block. Anybody who has worked hard to earn something can probably relate to setbacks. People who want to just nitpick and pin a label on him because he can't maintain the perfection and the flawless image
that they put upon him, just come across to me as having a chip on their shoulder. So quick to throw those stones, but would never dare look into that mirror themselves.