MMA is different than other sports, particularly as it relates to competing against friends. Sure, tackling and blocking is the kind of aggressive thing you don't normally do to a friend, much less an acquaintance. But trying to knock someone out or break their arm is a totally different deal. Therefore, it's always interesting when two fighters who were supposedly friends choose to fight. Oftentimes one seems to think that they were closer than the other one did. Remember the whole Tito Ortiz-Chuck Liddell saga? Well, in the case of the upcoming UFC 145 main event between UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones and former champ Rashad Evans, we know two things: First, Jones agreed to fight Evans while in the cage pretty quickly. Second, Jones has gone on record indicating that the two were never really that close, even if Evans seemed to think they'd already decided not to fight one another.

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