Steven Seagal Reportedly Banned From Jon Jones' Locker Room Before UFC 135

Steven Seagal just won't go away. It was pretty humorous when Seagal, with 100% seriousness, took credit for teaching Black House members Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida the front kicks that saw them defeat Vitor Belfort and Randy Couture respectively. I guess he thought he would take some of his wisdom over to another superstar, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, before UFC 135. But Fighters Only reports that Seagal got shot down:

"He was wondering if he could come and talk to me backstage before the fight, just give me some words of encouragement. I didn't think that would be a good idea," Jones revealed.

"My training staff works very hard on me. I'm their prodigy. I wouldn't want to disrespect them by welcoming someone else's master into our room, into our house, into our family."

They do report that Seagal had talked to Jones on the phone a few days before that though, which boggles the mind. After the fight, Seagal did a hilariously bad interview with MMA Fighting that is full of crazy. Here's a few of the gems. First, it is brought up that Jones threw a front kick to the face:

"Yeah, him and I did talk about that. But he hasn't learned it yet. You know, I never taught it."

Anderson Silva is a "very close friend" and Jones is "a kind-of-a-friend". Ringing endorsement there. Seagal doesn't want to see the two fight though. He praised Jones for a while, and also praised Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's head movement, but he had to get a bit of a jab in about Jones:

"Jon Jones wasn't himself tonight."

And when pressed about it and told that Joe Rogan found Jones' performance quite impressive, Seagal made the most sarcastic face possible for him (so basically he looked the same), and said in regards to Rogan:

"Okay. *laughs* I'm a fighter. I fought all my life. You can listen to him. Maybe he knows more than me. I don't know. My opinion? Jon Jones is much, much better than that. That's just my humble opinion. Maybe Joe Rogan knows more than me. I don't know."

He then went on to say that Rampage had been under siege all night because Jones was out for justice. But he added that no one was above the law because the octagon was on deadly ground, and sometimes when you're marked for death, you just have to make an executive decision.

I don't remember ever seeing Seagal throw a kick and I'm not sure he could with that big belly.

front kick, I'd like to see him get in the cage sometime...

not trying to take anything away from Seagal but he's a one system fighter, how much does he know about the ground game?

I'd love to see Seagal get in the cage, then he could be humbled

At one of Segals wrap parties, for one of his earlier films, He got on stage and said he was the baddest dude in the place. Now there
were many martial artists there. He said he could kick all their asses and anyone could take a shot. No one got up, then a older
short guy gets up and walks to the stage. It was a guy called 'Judo Gene Labell'. (I read his books but heard this from many other
people) Labell was a judo guy, a professional wrestler and stunt man. He walked up, got Segal in a choke and put him to sleep and
sat back down. They said when Segal woke up he look around and left. Segal also got his ranking from his wifes father in Japan
because the father could not leave his school to a female (his daughter) and to own a school you had to be a certain rank. The father promoted Segal and when Segal got his rank he came back to the US. (Let his wife there) Judo Gene Labell used to wear a pink gi.
Just to fuck with people.

If that's true, that's hilarious