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Jon Jones: Who Has Daniel Cormier Knocked Out, ‘Bigfoot’ Silva?

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The title unification bout between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones has been a long time in the making. Ever since their first duel at UFC 182 there’s been the feeling that a rematch was always just around the corner. Even when ‘Bones’ was suspended and stripped of the title, we all knew that the second fight was imminent. Now that July 9 date is within touching distance, as we stand on the cusp of UFC 200 fight week, and the rivalry between ‘DC’ and Jones has ramped up once again.

There’s been plenty said in the war of words between the two long standing rivals, but perhaps the biggest question about the fight itself is regarding growth. How much has Cormier evolved, and on the opposite side of that coin how much has Jones potentially regressed? At UFC 197 we saw an extremely rusty former champion put in a rather dull performance, albeit one sided, against Ovince St-Preux. ‘DC’ recently claimed ‘this is the new Jon Jones,’ if true this could mean a very different rematch at UFC 200.

DC vs. Jon Jones

An interesting stat about Jon Jones; he has the same number of first round finishes at 205 pounds as former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Cormier has made use of Jones’ recent decision streak, saying ‘Bones’ lacks power and ability to stop fights. Talking during a recent podcast, as quoted by MMAFighting.com, the current interim champion Jones offered his response to Cormier’s criticism:

“The funny thing about him saying that is, Daniel Cormier doesn’t punch hard. I think the only person I can recall him knocking out is ‘Bigfoot’ Silva. I’m not trying to offend ‘Bigfoot’ Silva but, I mean, he’s not known to have the strongest chin in the game. So, you name anybody else who he knocked out with one punch and walked away, I don’t think I’ve seen it.”

Jones recounts his UFC 182 decision win over Cormier, pointing out that at no time did the wrestler inflict any damage:

“In my fight with Daniel Cormier, he always talks about how I was working his body and I kicked him in the ribs and I kneed him in the ribs, and these body shots that really sent a shockwave going through his body,” Jones said. “But at no point in the fight did one of his punches do anything to me, or kicks. At no point in the fight did he get me to bleed. At no point in the fight did he get me to lose my breath or to look up at the clock out of frustration. At no point did he wobble me with a punch. I mean, Daniel Cormier caught me with like 60 uppercuts in that fight, and I’m exaggerating. Not one of those uppercuts did anything to me.”

“Never made me stumble. None of his kicks made me back up or stop moving forward. So, he’s trying paint this picture of me not being a powerful guy, but I kicked his ass.”

I actually hurt him with strikes, where he did nothing to me. I’ve heard him in interviews say that he’s going to walk me down and take me down right away because obviously I don’t have the stopping power to stop him from walking forward. But the reality is, if I wanted to go out there and walk him down, take him down for the sixth time, he doesn’t have the stopping power to stop me.”

“We’ve brought in absolutely zero special training partners from anywhere,” Jones said. “I’ve been working with the same few guys my whole career. These guys, they’ll go southpaw for me if I need them to go southpaw, they’ll shoot on me if I need them to shoot on me more, they’ll throw uppercuts more if I need uppercuts, overhands if I need overhands. I mean, DC getting a 6-10 guy shows how big I am in his head, how deep I am in his head.

“That’s what he looks at me as, this freaking 6-10 monster.”

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Judge Issues Chilling Warning To Jon Jones In Court

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The curious case of ex-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones continued this week, as he stood in an orange jump suit before a judge in a court of law. Having been pulled over by the police just 5 days prior for allegedly drag racing in the streets of New Mexico, Jones had felt the lonesome space of a jail cell for 4 days after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Violating the terms of his probation, worsened to a minor extent by his foul demeanour towards the New Mexico police officer, the 28-year old New York born Jones looked humble in court.

After such a torrid year for ‘Bones’ it was hoped he’d be able to stay on the straight and narrow. Alas the temptation of driving his high powered and modified Corvette was too strong, and we found ourselves once again worrying about Jones being pulled from a title fight. This time around Jones is the challenger and Daniel Cormier the champion, after the UFC stripped the fallen champion following his 2015 hit-and-run. The consensus cry from the MMA community was ‘Please Jon, stop driving.’

So here he stood, before a realistic yet stern judge, who sentenced Jon Jones to an extra 60 hours of community service, driver and anger management courses, and a no-drive before checking with his PO policy. Watch the video of the judge’s ruling and warning to Jon Jones:

“Jon, if you do come back here, it won’t go well”.

Here’s the UFC’s official response to Jon Jones’ latest law worries:

“UFC respects the decision made today by Judge Michael E. Martinez in New Mexico Second Judicial District Court regarding the probation terms of the case involving Jon Jones.”

Which is just about as generic a statement as you’d expect. Should the UFC be putting in extra measures to assure ‘Bones’ makes it to UFC 197 on April 23? Otherwise, we might find ‘DC’ facing a substitute, or worse no opponent in his scheduled third title defense.

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Jon Jones Receives Anger Management & Driver Courses For Latest Offense

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Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones has once again come in to trouble with the law, and again it’s involving a situation with ‘Bones’ behind the wheel. This time it was his alleged drag racing in the streets of New Mexico that got Jones mixed up with the police, and the subsequent explicit video that was released shows quite an immature side to the ex-champ. He’s remained in the jail house since turning himself in on Tuesday, after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

The warrant came as Jones had broken the terms of his probation, an 18 month restriction that the troubled fighter was hit with following last year’s hit-and-run fiasco. The 28-year old New York born Jones was also stripped of his title for the offense, and this all came after the leaked results of a failed OOC (out-of-competition) drug test for cocaine. In between all this madness Jones did manage to pull off a decision victory over Daniel Cormier at UFC 182.

Jones’ hearing was set for this morning (Thursday March 31, 2016) and the district attorney had recommended some anger management classes and a 10am-4pm curfew for Jones, unless he had to go out for work purposes. The scheduled bout with Daniel Cormier remains intact thus far for UFC 197, but this Jones in trouble thing is simply a broken record at this point.

The results of Jones’ hearing came in courtesy of Marc Raimondi on Twitter:

Jon Jones must attend anger management and driver improvement courses. No curfew. Must get probation officer’s approval to drive.

— Marc Raimondi (@marc_raimondi) March 31, 2016

What do you think, is the decision too soft? Does it simply open the door to ‘Bones’ getting in trouble once again? Only time will tell, but let’s just pray he makes it to UFC 197 to rematch Daniel Cormier for that belt!

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