With UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans in the books, Fuel TV has created a highlight reel from the five-round fight which ended in a unanimous decision victory for Jon Jones.
Jay Glazer joined Jones’ current and Evans’ former Jackson-Winkeljohn teammate Brian Stann in analyzing the one-sided contest.
Jones and Evans used to train with one another, but had since traded in the gloves and spent the majority of the past year sparring through Twitter and in the media. While Evans has been considered the No. 1 contender for quite some time, various injuries to both men had put this fight on hold until Saturday night’s main event.
All the trash talk led to a highly anticipated fight and it certainly lived up to the hype, as both Evans and Jones landed big shots that staggered the other throughout the 25-minute contest. It was the first time that Jones had ever been taken to the championship rounds in a fight, while Evans had gone the distance in a five-round non-title fight just under three months ago against Phil Davis.
Though Jones didn’t finish the fight in quite as destructive of a fashion as he did against Lyoto Machida, Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson or Ryan Bader in 2012, he started off his 2012 campaign in the right way with perhaps the biggest win of his young career.
Taking advantage of his UFC-record 84.5″ reach, Jones picked Evans apart, keeping the challenger at a distance and never allowing him to get comfortable on his feet.
The end result was the third successful championship defense for Jones and the second loss of Rashad Evans‘ professional mixed martial arts career.
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