Sonnen went on to ask what Jones is worth without his word after changing his stance within 24 hours. 

“There is a simple question, and it’s not whether you’re retired or not or if you’re going to fight again. It’s simply, what good is your word?” he said. 

Sonnen continued to say on his YouTube channel that Jones couldn’t be counted on, and that he had heard that was the reasoning for not being considered for the White House card. He said it puts the promoter in a difficult position, and pointed to White himself saying so in the UFC 327 press conference. 

“Dana White came out and spoke about this, and Dana said, ‘Man, there’s nothing different than it has been the last 10 years. I told Lorenzo [Ferttita] a decade ago we can’t make a business off this guy.’ You can’t count on him. When he shows up, is it fun? Sure, but you know the result ahead of time. It’s very difficult.” 

“That’s not how men talk,” Sonnen added. He pointed to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s retirement and how it was known it would be permanent. “There was a respect. While there was a doubt, there was respect, because we knew we could trust him. We knew that his word meant something. Whether we liked it or not, whether we liked what he was saying or not, we knew we could count on it.”