Cormier wanted an inside fight, but at times would eat knees to the stomach and short elbows to the head. Neither fighter really dominated any one position. Cormier popped immediately back to his feet. Jones scored the first takedown of the fight, when he caught a Cormier kick and turned it into an outside trip. The whole wrestling community is against you. He said, 'Everywhere I go, all the tournaments, everyone is rooting for DC. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community. "My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. "A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling," Jones said. He relentlessly walked forward on the much lankier Jones, working into the clinch and setting up his dirty boxing with the inside right uppercut. When Cormier, somewhat foolishly, dropped his guard and left his hands at his sides, Jones fired off a few last-second punches to put an exclamation point on the grudge match.ĭespite Cormier's strength in wrestling, it was his boxing that gave Jones trouble - especially early.
In the fifth round, Jones did so with seconds remaining on the clock. I don't like DC, and that's why I'm being this way."Īfter each round, Jones, 27, lifted his arms in a sign of victory over the challenger. Right on, Dominick."Sorry I'm being classless right now. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are no second acts in American life, and while this damn country is ideally meant to be the land of second chances, you can count Dominick Reyes, Jones' opponent this weekend at UFC 247 in Houston, as being in the Fitzgerald-Rudy Mills camp.Īs Reyes put it, “The lore of Jon Jones is a lot bigger than he actually is." “I felt like I was throwing a lot of greatness away.”īy taking accountability, is ready to fully realize his potential (via /uawyPNnoCm- ESPN MMA February 2, 2020į. Some real human being fire, too, not the kind of fake heat that brings a man to weirdly shove an affable cat like Daniel Cormier in the forehead at a press conference. Rather, you want to see him lose just to know such a thing is possible - and perhaps to see if such a thing would bring some fire out of him at long last. He's bossed the light heavyweight division like Miranda Priestly with a seven-foot wingspan.Īnd all the while, he's never approached a place of being beloved. He defends titles like Yadier Molina defends home plate. He'll still try to kill your hand - and that of every last fighter you'd prefer by comparison.
If you're reticent to consider him some kind of sports hero, well, sure, but too bad. NUrqf0sWS7- Jon Bones Jones February 1, 2020Īll told, Jones has failed two drug tests, committed a DUI in 2012, and pleaded no contest to a battery charge last summer.
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And still you try to kill my hand." You can almost picture Reggae-tastic Rudy Mills and Dana White pow-wowing a half-dozen years ago in a sweat lodge wondering how to get this guy to take up a different hobby. He's twice been stripped on the light heavyweight title: once for PEDs, and once again for an automobile hit-and-run that left a pregnant woman injured, an incident that violated the UFC's personal conduct policy. The man we call Bones, despite having calves thinner than prime Lara Flynn Boyle, ascended to the UFC pound-for-pound throne on the strength of a brilliantly adaptable style of "look-see-do" violence that essentially makes him facekicking's version of Cypher from the X-Men - but his amazing run is blemished.
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