3 Reasons Jon Jones Should Fear Chael Sonnen

Few experts, especially those involved in the oddsmaking process, would go out on a limb and predict Chael Sonnen to dethrone seemingly unflappable light heavyweight champ Jon Jones at UFC 159. Size and athletic disadvantages, among other predicat…

Few experts, especially those involved in the oddsmaking process, would go out on a limb and predict Chael Sonnen to dethrone seemingly unflappable light heavyweight champ Jon Jones at UFC 159.

Size and athletic disadvantages, among other predicates, have made Sonnen a 5-to-1 underdog (+500), according to Bovada.com.

But the odds stacked against “The American Gangster” are almost identical to the odds former lightweight champ Frankie Edgar (+550) faced before upsetting B.J. Penn at UFC 112.

So if Edgar could pull off the unthinkable at UFC 112 against B.J. Penn, then who’s to say that Sonnen, a two-time middleweight title challenger, can’t duplicate that feat against Jones?

Here are three reasons “Bones” should fear what will surely be a desperate and hungry Sonnen at UFC 159.

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