Last year Jon Jones had one of the best years in MMA history. Going from prospect to near the top of pound-for-pound rankings is no easy task for anyone to complete in a career; Jones did it in one year.
A nice feature of MMA is that there’s always surprises at every turn. Competing with small gloves and an ultra competitive work environment usually creates quite a few twists and turns that fans don’t ever see coming.
Jones’ year was predicted by fans, but nobody could’ve imagined all of it happening in a single year. The rest of these shocks that awed fans may have been predicted by some, but they still left us speechless.