Rashad Evans admits to calling Jon Jones a “white boy” via text but insists it wasn’t meant to be racist

Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans has admitted to sending a controversial text to bitter rival and current champion, Jon Jones this past week calling him a “white boy” but insists there was no racist undertones associated with what was said.
Speaking via MMAWeekly.com Rashad said:

“Yeah I did say that to him but he also said a lot of things to me that I didn’t want to put out there. I mean, we were arguing – I said a lot of things, he did, back and forth, you know? But I did call him a fake ass white boy, I did.”

“But its not that I think being a white boy is a bad thing, its not against white people in general. Its an insult to him because he’s not white, you can see where the insult comes in. That’s the extent of the insult right there – its not an insult against white people, its that he’s black and I’m calling him white.”

“It made him mad because he posted it on the internet – and what kind of move is that anyway? That’s like high school, grade school s–t – ‘Look what Rashad said to me! Look everyone, look, look!’ – what I am gonna do, call my mom coz Jon Jones said a bunch of mean things to me?”

“If I offended anybody I deeply do apologise, some of my best friends are white. I got no problem with white people it was just a simple fact that to be a black person and be called something that you are not is very offensive.”

The two men could wind up squaring off in the middle of the octagon and settling this bitter feud once and for all before the end of the year but first Evans will need to defeat hot prospect, Phil Davis at UFC 133 on August 6^th in Philadelphia. Stay tuned to MMABay in the coming weeks for more on this as we get it.