Today at the UFC 145 press conference Jon Jones said he realizes he has both a "big fan base and a big hate base" and he is content with that. That makes him a whole lot like a hipster. Hipsters have a pretty big fan and hate base themselves and they don't really care either way-they are going to keep being hipsters. And Jon Jones is going to keep being Jon Jones whether he has a strong hate base or not. This video shot back in 2009 during a sparring session and the filming of a documentary released last February called "Proving Grounds" -was just released today and it will really make you hipster hating people happy.  This was shot before Jon amazed us all with those nasty elbows to Matt Hammil's brow and in the video you can hear his coaches referring to him as a 'rule changer'. So far it seems like their consensus has proved correct. He's been an unorthodox style fighter and beaten people many never expected him to beat. Watch him in the beginning stages of creating the Bones Jones we know now, as he KO's the rastafarian power right of his sparring partners dreads in one massive and perfectly placed punch. Enjoy!

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+82 # Guest 2012-04-18 15:58

A hot meal to spar with Jon Jones !? I'm in !!

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+14 # bosswell 2012-04-18 16:04

This is the best comment I've ever seen

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+35 # Guest 2012-04-18 17:51

That was...dreadful.

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+81 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:00

Jon! Check on the dread-head, get some fans!

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+21 # Stullo.de 2012-04-18 16:01

what a fucked up position to be in as the replacement guy in the red gear

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+55 # TDM 2012-04-18 16:08

"Keep sparring, the guy you just knocked out is fine."
-Greg Jackson

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+1 # SkyValley 2012-04-19 07:36

"Go check on Lyoto, get some fans"
-Greg Jackson

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+1 # barn 2012-04-19 12:26

"Jon, pop up, you gotta finish the round" *giggles* -Gerg Jergsen

I'm laughing too because it looked like Jon just wanted a breather. Or it was an intense hate for those that fashionably identify themselves with a counter-culture that was popular decades ago.

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-6 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:17

fake like jon jones

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-10 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:20

This shit is FAKED!! Just like everything Jones does. Nice try homie!

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+6 # SkyValley 2012-04-18 16:20

I fear, like Nick Diaz, there will come a point where only professional boxers/K-1 fighters will be able to improve Jones' game

Haters gonna hate, but the man is improving all the time

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+8 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:31

many years for that to happen

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+15 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:51

yes, 'cause knocking hippies out only jon jones and working hard can do

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-1 # SkyValley 2012-04-19 07:38

You're right. TKO'ing Shogun and submitting Rampage/Machida doesn't come from hard work - it's hippie hitting that gets the job done

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+13 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:32

I shocked that Greg Jackson didn't instruct Bones Jones check on him & get some fans.

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+67 # gardeninja 2012-04-18 16:34

When he woke up he prolly thought he was back at the Phish concert...well untill he saw black people there.

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+11 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:37

*** early nominee for comment of the year ***. I tip my hat to you good sir!

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+2 # Guest 2012-04-18 19:55

I've seen black people at Phish shows. (Camden and MSG)

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+18 # Sambro 2012-04-18 22:11

dealers don't count

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+8 # Guest 2012-04-18 16:47

Will work for Knockout...

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+13 # boloblack 2012-04-18 16:48

Jokes on Bones. This guy loves to take naps.

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-10 # synthsis 2012-04-18 17:12

white dude with dreads does not constitute a hipster. So says the resident hipster, me.

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+11 # Guest 2012-04-18 19:44

Who wants to label yourself anything like a hipster I pitty your poor soul

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+36 # Guest 2012-04-18 17:20

Dude woke up thinking he was still occupying Wall Street.

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+22 # Whos OmarPaulHarris 2012-04-18 17:36

And then Jones narced on him for using a certain herbal supplement.

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-5 # Guest 2012-04-18 18:26

Jon! Go check on him! Go get some fans!

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+20 # Guest 2012-04-18 18:46

there are some grade A comments in here.

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-12 # Guest 2012-04-18 19:07

Because no one else has used this one yet: Jon go check on him! Get some fans!

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+12 # bosswell 2012-04-18 19:53

I'm so glad you read all the comments before declaring that nobody had used that one

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0 # Guest 2012-04-19 12:32

I guess I should have ended that with a #sarcasm hashtag. Just assumed everyone was smart enough to figure that out.

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+7 # TIMinBALTIMORE 2012-04-18 20:00

Some shady sparring KO videos coming out of Jacksons, first the Cowboy Cerrone one and now this. Who films random sparring sessions?

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+5 # bosswell 2012-04-18 21:17

Cerrone was actually doing a clinic. He was sparring with one of the kids, and didn't mean to knock him out.

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+5 # Guest 2012-04-18 23:23

and Cerrone DID check on the guy he ko'd, without any gerg jackson urging

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+2 # Guest 2012-04-19 07:46

I will forever refer to him now as Gerg Jergsen due to that typo.

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+1 # Guest 2012-04-18 22:26

What da bombaclat bredren?

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0 # Patrick 2012-04-19 01:52

I really want to say something whitty, but Google translate doesn't have an English -> Jamaican option yet.

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-5 # Guest 2012-04-19 02:46

Was it Jon hitting him that knocked him out or was it just that hard of a blip on his gaydar.

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+2 # Guest 2012-04-19 03:09

they wanted to show that he can KO ppl b/c he never did but it's so fake and such a weak attempt. this hippie he "KO'd" ain't Rashad bro..

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0 # Sambro 2012-04-19 07:32

Wake up Hippie, before he jacks your dreads!

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0 # Guest 2012-04-20 00:25

Jon Jones, I mind you breathing... don't breathe our precious air anymore.

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