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Jon Jones recalls nasty toe injury suffered in UFC 159 fight with Chael Sonnen: ‘Oh f*ck, what is this?!’

Jon JonesReigning UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has avoided sustaining any major injuries for much of his mixed martial arts career, but ‘Bones’ was in for a surprise following his title tilt with Chael Sonnen more than a decade ago. At the time, Jon Jones sitting atop the light heavyweight division when he was tasked with […]

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Reigning UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has avoided sustaining any major injuries for much of his mixed martial arts career, but ‘Bones’ was in for a surprise following his title tilt with Chael Sonnen more than a decade ago.

At the time, Jon Jones sitting atop the light heavyweight division when he was tasked with taking out iconic trash-talker Chael P. Sonnen at UFC 159 in Newark, NJ. ‘Bones’ managed to finish things in the opening round, knocking out the ‘American Gangster’ with 27 seconds on the clock. Had Sonnen survived the round, he may have become the light heavyweight champion.

Following the fight, Jones discovered that he had suffered a rather nasty toe injury during the round. Fans got a glimpse of it during the broadcast and immediately groaned in unison as a bone was protruding from Jones’ big toe. The funny thing is, Jon Jones was just as shocked as everyone else as ‘Bones’ failed to register the injury until the fight was over.

During a recent appearance on the OverDogs podcast, Jon Jones was asked about the injury and what was going through his mind before and after realizing just how mangled his toe was.

“In the moment I didn’t feel a damn thing. I did a cartwheel after the fight. I was feeling great,” Jones said. Got to talk to Joe Rogan which is always a little cherry on top of a good victory. Man, I looked down and I was like, ‘Bro, my foot is all f*cked up’ and immediately, the pain and the room started to spin a little bit. I immediately thought, ‘Oh f*ck, what is this?!’

Jon Jones Gearing Up for One of the Biggest Fights of His Career at UFC 295

Six months later, Jon Jones returned to the Octagon and engaged in perhaps the greatest light heavyweight fight in UFC history against Alexander Gustafsson.

Rattling off eight more wins in the division, ‘Bones’ walked away from the UFC intent on making the move to heavyweight. Three years later, Jones returned to capture the vacant heavyweight world title, defeating Ciryl Gane via submission just past the two-minute mark of their UFC 285 headliner.

Next, ‘Bones’ will return to defend his title against the general consensus heavyweight GOAT Stipe Miocic. The pair will headline the promotion’s highly anticipated return to the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, for UFC 295.

Top 10 Strangest UFC Events Of All-Time

The UFC has proven to be a perfect breeding ground for the weird and wonderful both inside and outside of the Octagon since its inception 25 years ago. However, some events, in particular, have gone above and beyond the call of duty and proven to be magnets for madness. In this article, we’ll look back […]

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The UFC has proven to be a perfect breeding ground for the weird and wonderful both inside and outside of the Octagon since its inception 25 years ago.

However, some events, in particular, have gone above and beyond the call of duty and proven to be magnets for madness.

In this article, we’ll look back in chronological order at the 10 strangest shows in UFC history. Check them out:

UFC 1

Lead commentator Bill ‘Superfoot’ Wallace set the tone for the UFC’s first-ever event in 1993 when he unintentionally burped and mistakenly called the promotion, ‘The Ultimate Fighting Challenge’ during his opening monologue.

In the opening fight, Gerard Gordeau gave 400-pound plus sumo wrestler Teila Tuli some free dental work when he kicked him flush in the face, sending one tooth flying into the crowd and leaving his foot cut badly enough that it would later hospitalize him for several days due to a serious infection.

The 6′ 4″, 265-pound Kevin Rosier had looked athletic in his audition photos, but showed up on fight week at a portly 300 pounds, fresh from having had root canal surgery and unashamedly eating pizza and swigging Heineken while working out at a local gym.

Nonetheless, Rosier won his opening round fight, then Art Jimmerson bizarrely fought Royce Gracie wearing a single boxing glove and proceeded to tap out following a takedown before the BJJ expert even had a chance to lock up a submission.

During the final, Gordeau bit Gracie on the ear, claiming later that he wanted to give the Brazilian something to remember him by, and in response, Gracie intentionally held onto the fight-ending choke for several seconds longer than he should have.

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Six Huge Messes The UFC Should Have Avoided

Sometimes, the UFC shoots itself in the foot with problems that were easily avoidable. Whether it’s just bad matchmaking or more nefarious issues, the UFC has gone into crisis mode more often than they’d like to admit, and it seems like its been happening with concerning regularity lately. With mainstream media attention and publicity at […]

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Sometimes, the UFC shoots itself in the foot with problems that were easily avoidable.

Whether it’s just bad matchmaking or more nefarious issues, the UFC has gone into crisis mode more often than they’d like to admit, and it seems like its been happening with concerning regularity lately.

With mainstream media attention and publicity at an all-time high, the UFC needs to learn from their mistakes of the past to ensure a better product, but even as the world’s best MMA promotion by a wide margin, they could sometimes do much better in dealing with the curveballs the notoriously volatile fight game throws their way.

We broke down the six biggest messes the UFC could have easily avoided, and the results may surprise you:

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6. Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen

This match-up never made sense in the first place, yet the UFC insisted on putting it together.

They tried it at UFC 151 on short notice after Dan Henderson was forced out with a knee inury, which Jones declined. The UFC then canceled the entire card altogether.

Ignoring fate, they put on the fight at UFC 159 instead, and Jones predictably smashed Sonnen in the first round. However, Jones did break his toe in a freak accident while defending a takedown, and one wonders whether Sonnen could have won the belt had the bout gone past the first round. Jones’ big toe was completely broken in the most grotesque way; he had snagged it in a tear in the Octagon canvas.

But the writing was on the wall the entire time the UFC insisted on putting together a Jones vs. Sonnen title fight.

They tried to punish Jones for not accepting the bout on a week’s notice, yet in reality, it was the fans and other fighters on UFC 151 who were punished.

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Video: Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen From UFC 159 (Full Fight)

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Ahead of their upcoming landmark UFC 200 event, UFC continues to release a number of major past fights, in their entirety, for free.

Featured above is the fifth title defense of former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion J…

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Ahead of their upcoming landmark UFC 200 event, UFC continues to release a number of major past fights, in their entirety, for free.

Featured above is the fifth title defense of former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones, as he battled former UFC Middleweight title contender Chael Sonnen in a fight that was memorable for a few reasons, one of which was the gruesome broken toe that Jones suffered.

Had “Bones” not finished Sonnen when he did, he was in real jeopardy of the fight being stopped because of the severity of the break, which he noticed while being interviewed by Joe Rogan inside the Octagon immediately after the fight ended.

Jones makes his second appearance inside the Octagon since being stripped of his title following an alleged hit-and-run incident in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he fights the last man he successfully defended his title against, current champion and his biggest career rival, Daniel Cormier in the main event of the aforementioned landmark UFC 200 pay-per-view event.

UFC 200: Cormier vs. Jones 2 is scheduled to take place live from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada during UFC’s International Fight Week on Saturday, July 9, 2016.

Join us here at MMANews.com on 7/9 for live coverage of the UFC 200 PPV event!

Oh, the Irony: Michael Bisping Suffers Detached Retina, Out of Action Until October


(Tomax, meet Xamot. Photo via Getty Images.)

Look, we know we’ve been declaring a lot of things to be “ironic” around here lately, but this…this is just ridiculous.

On yesterday’s edition of UFC Tonight, Ariel Helwani revealed that middleweight contender and prestigious member of the citizenry, Sir Michael of Bisping — the very same who once scribed that a certain dullard from Mississippi had “given himself a career-threatening eye-strain by watching too much internet porn” — has suffered an identical deformation. Even worse, the injury came as a result of a tussle with the very same dullard whom “The Count” both rebuked for said addiction to thinking machine-based lewdness and nearly blinded in the very same contest.

In common folk speak, we are trying to say that Michael Bisping suffered a detached retina during the very same UFC 159 fight in which he nearly took Alan Belcher’s right eye home with him. And that is ironic.

“After the fight against Alan Belcher, Michael Bisping completely lost all peripheral vision in his right eye,” Ariel Helwani reported yesterday. “He went to see an eye on doctor on Tuesday and he found out that he had a detached retina. On Thursday, he had surgery to fix the detached retina. He’s hoping to return to the UFC in October.”

No word yet on whether or not Bisping will be interested in a potential catchweight fight with Rich Franklin when he returns, but we will keep you updated.

–J. Jones


(Tomax, meet Xamot. Photo via Getty Images.)

Look, we know we’ve been declaring a lot of things to be “ironic” around here lately, but this…this is just ridiculous.

On yesterday’s edition of UFC Tonight, Ariel Helwani revealed that middleweight contender and prestigious member of the citizenry, Sir Michael of Bisping — the very same who once scribed that a certain dullard from Mississippi had “given himself a career-threatening eye-strain by watching too much internet porn” — has suffered an identical deformation. Even worse, the injury came as a result of a tussle with the very same dullard whom “The Count” both rebuked for said addiction to thinking machine-based lewdness and nearly blinded in the very same contest.

In common folk speak, we are trying to say that Michael Bisping suffered a detached retina during the very same UFC 159 fight in which he nearly took Alan Belcher’s right eye home with him. And that is ironic.

“After the fight against Alan Belcher, Michael Bisping completely lost all peripheral vision in his right eye,” Ariel Helwani reported yesterday. “He went to see an eye on doctor on Tuesday and he found out that he had a detached retina. On Thursday, he had surgery to fix the detached retina. He’s hoping to return to the UFC in October.”

No word yet on whether or not Bisping will be interested in a potential catchweight fight with Rich Franklin when he returns, but we will keep you updated.

–J. Jones

Pat Healy Admits to “Dumb” Decision That Cost Him UFC 159 Win, Tentatively Calls Bryan Caraway a “Good Guy”


(“We both see the green goblin dancing in the corner of the room, right Ariel?” Photo via MMAFighting.)

Without beating the dead horse that is the marijuana in MMA debate any further, it’s safe to say that Pat Healy’s positive test for marijuana following his UFC 159 win over Jim Miller was, at the very least, a costly mistake. The same can be said for Nate Diaz‘s response to the situation, albeit for entirely different reasons. But being the relatively straightforward guy that Healy is, he was quick to admit to his mistake in a recent interview with MMAFighting:

I wish I could go back in time and slap myself. It was a dumb thing to do. 

It was about three and a half, four weeks out. I was at a friend’s birthday party, just hanging out. To be honest I didn’t even think it would be an issue, you know? It was a huge mistake and I just didn’t even think.

While Healy’s admission of guilt is a bit of fresh air in today’s “take no responsibility” MMA landscape, we’re kind of left wishing he had been managed by Mike Kogan, if only so we could learn about how marijuana in the state of Oregon, which is where Healy is from, is considered an off-brand form of Advil.

As for all the controversy that spilled out of Healy’s positive test in the form of Bryan Caraway?


(“We both see the green goblin dancing in the corner of the room, right Ariel?” Photo via MMAFighting.)

Without beating the dead horse that is the marijuana in MMA debate any further, it’s safe to say that Pat Healy’s positive test for marijuana following his UFC 159 win over Jim Miller was, at the very least, a costly mistake. The same can be said for Nate Diaz‘s response to the situation, albeit for entirely different reasons. But being the relatively straightforward guy that Healy is, he was quick to admit to his mistake in a recent interview with MMAFighting:

I wish I could go back in time and slap myself. It was a dumb thing to do. 

It was about three and a half, four weeks out. I was at a friend’s birthday party, just hanging out. To be honest I didn’t even think it would be an issue, you know? It was a huge mistake and I just didn’t even think.

While Healy’s admission of guilt is a bit of fresh air in today’s “take no responsibility” MMA landscape, we’re kind of left wishing he had been managed by Mike Kogan, if only so we could learn about how marijuana in the state of Oregon, which is where Healy is from, is considered an off-brand form of Advil.

As for all the controversy that spilled out of Healy’s positive test in the form of Bryan Caraway?

I feel bad that my poor choices spawned more trouble for anybody, for Caraway and Nate.

Bryan’s a good guy. Sometimes, I think, you know, he got into some trouble with comments about Ronda Rousey in that past. Sometimes I think when he talks to the media he just doesn’t think about what he’s saying 100 percent through. I think it was a poor choice of words by him, but I know he’s a good guy and didn’t mean anything toward me personally. 

Healy has always come off as a stand up guy, but holding yourself personally responsible for the rants of an alleged woman-hitting steroid peddler and a semi-literate ignoramus who weren’t even involved in your situation to begin with? Do not test this man’s politeness.

–J. Jones