Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones were rivals at one point leading up to their title fight in 2013. UFC champion Jones made sure to make their rivalry one to remember.

Chael Sonnen recently told the story of Jon Jones mooning his mom. The former UFC title challenger couldn't help but look back on it and laugh.

“Oh my goodness, this was great,” Sonnen recalled on The MMA Hour. “So Jon and I fight in New Jersey, and we get done [at] about 2:00 a.m. [and back] from the arena. The fight ends at 1:00 a.m. and I’ve got to get stitches, then there’s a post-fight press conference, so it’s 2:00 a.m., it’s a late night. I’ve got to be in the lobby at 6:00 a.m. the next morning to meet my mother to get to the airport to fly back to Portland. So Jon was up around the clock, and when I get to my mother in the lobby of the hotel at 6 a.m., there’s only my mother and Jon Jones there.”

“Jon is wearing nothing but red sweatpants,” Sonnen continued. “He’s got no shirt, no hat, no shoes. When I say nothing, he’s wearing nothing but red sweatpants. And he’s visiting with her, and he’s being very polite. Jon excuses himself, my mother and I get our bags and we’re going to go. Jon takes the elevator up, then he walks out. It was one of those hotels where the doors are on the outside so you can see everything.”

“And Jon yells down to her one last time to get her to look up — dropped his pants, mooned her, went into his room and went to sleep. She loved it.”

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Chael Sonnen's mother actually thought the situation was very funny. The former UFC fighter's mom still talks about it to this day.

“Some people think that’s rude,” Sonnen said. “My mother loved it. She bragged about that to her bunco group. She put a message on Facebook. She still laughs about that to this day, so I don’t want to hear people say that Jon was inappropriate. It was a funny moment. It’s up to my mother to decide. She liked it.”

The former UFC champion is known for having some odd behavior outside of the cage. Luckily this situation ended up being a funny one instead of turning into an altercation.