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Jon Jones 'never' welcome at Blackzilians - Rashad

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Rashad Evans' Blackzilians training camp welcomed Miguel Torres into its fold on Thursday, but Evans insists reigning UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones will never be welcome.

Evans is a figurehead of a rapidly increasing camp full of talented individuals, including the likes of Anthony Johnson, Matt Mitrione and now Torres - to name just a few. The group was originally formed after Evans left Greg Jackson's camp following a fallout with Jones, and he explains that Antonio Silva was the brains behind the name.

"Everybody says, 'How did you get the name Blackzilians?'" Evans explained to ESPN. "I think it was Bigfoot [Silva], because half our team was black and half was Brazilian. So he said, 'Why don't we call ourselves Blackzilians?'"

Evans found conditions at Jackson's camp untenable after Jones won the light-heavyweight belt, and then declared he would fight his team-mate. Rashad had always previously claimed the pair would never fight, insisting he would rather move to middleweight or heavyweight.

Now it seems Evans and Jones are destined for one of the biggest grudge matches in UFC history, and Evans insists - regardless of the outcome of a future fight - Jones will not be able to persuade his way into the Blackzilian camp.

"Never. One thing about Jon is he is fake, he's not real," Evans said. "We had a pact and he violated that pact. When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.

"I would never have said I would fight Jon. I was even getting flak off Dana White that I wouldn't fight Jon. He did a thing on Versus where he said, 'Do you see what Rashad has done? He's made it harder to get opponents because he's got friends...'

"But then Jon did an interview when he said he'll fight me and stuff like that. It's not the way he should have said it. If he didn't mind fighting, he should have said, 'We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.' That's a good way to answer the question.

"And even if he did say it in the interviewer, the least he could have done is called or text to say, 'This is what I said, but this is what I really meant by it.' The fact that he didn't, he let me know how he really felt."

Evans went on to explain that Jones was going behind his back way before cracks in the relationship began to show in public.

"We had an incident about eight months before that where I heard he was talking trash about me, saying he can whoop me," Evans explained. "So I talked to Greg [Jackson] and he ironed out the situation, and me and Jon met face-to-face at ESPN MMA Live once, and after that it was supposed to be cool.

"But I always knew from the first time I trained with him, that kid was trying to get me."

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