Friday, May 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Jon Jones moving up to HW after clearing out the LHW division
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones will probably move up to the UFC's Heavyweight division after he cleans out the Light Heavyweight division says coach Greg Jackson on The MMA Hour.
Jon Jones coach Greg Jackson was a guest on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, you can watch the full video below, and he answered the question whether Jon Jones should move up to Heavyweight:
Yeah, I'm OK with whatever they want to do. If he wants to do that, then I'll help him out. I've always said that it's up to fighters and the management. Then it's my job to figure out how we're going to do that. If that's the parameters they want to give, that's what I do. And I actually enjoy that. Anything different is good.
He also talks about the challenges that Jon Jones still has to face at Light Heavyweight:
It doesn't matter to me.
It's whatever the UFC says. As long as we have enough time to prepare, we're going to have to fight them all anyway. We're going to have to fight Machida again, we're going to have to fight Gustafsson, whoever else they put in front of us. It's just a matter of who's next. But I never want to be like, 'Avoid this guy' or 'fight this guy.' When you're the champion, you really have to take on. That's part of what being champion is; whoever they say you have to fight, you have to fight. People might not think that makes sense because we said we don't want to take a new fight on short notice. That's a whole different animal. It's not that we were avoiding the opponent, we were avoiding the situation. We wanted to make sure we were well-prepared. This is a world title in a sport that I think is the best in the world by far, and I want to take that seriously.
It's whatever the UFC says. As long as we have enough time to prepare, we're going to have to fight them all anyway. We're going to have to fight Machida again, we're going to have to fight Gustafsson, whoever else they put in front of us. It's just a matter of who's next. But I never want to be like, 'Avoid this guy' or 'fight this guy.' When you're the champion, you really have to take on. That's part of what being champion is; whoever they say you have to fight, you have to fight. People might not think that makes sense because we said we don't want to take a new fight on short notice. That's a whole different animal. It's not that we were avoiding the opponent, we were avoiding the situation. We wanted to make sure we were well-prepared. This is a world title in a sport that I think is the best in the world by far, and I want to take that seriously.
The only true challenges left for Jon Jones are Alexander Gustafsson and Dan Henderson, but since Lyoto Machida won against Dan Henderson, it will be hard to see Jones vs. Henderson. The next logical choice would be Gustafsson, but now that Jones is out due to his compound fracture on his toe, he will likely to be matched against Lyoto Machida for the #1 contender spot.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tito Ortiz may have to come out of retirement to beat Jon Jones
Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz tweeted on Sunday morning that he can't let Jon Jones beat his record of consecutive Light Heavyweight title defenses.
Tito Ortiz responded to Jon Jones when he tied his UFC record of 5 consecutive title defenses in the Light Heavyweight division on Twitter:
Tito Ortiz won the vacant belt by Unanimous Decision against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 25 on April 14, 2000 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. After he became champ, he succesfully defended his title against Yuki Kondo, Evan Tanner, Elvis Sinosic, Vladimir Matyushenko and Ken Shamrock. He then lost the title against Randy Couture at UFC 44 on September 26, 2003, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.
On the other hand is Jones, who won the title in a TKO victory against Mauricio Rua at UFC 128 on March 19, 2011, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. He defends the belt 5 consecutive times against, Quinton Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort and Chael Sonnen. This ties him with Ortiz, Jones said he wants to break his record and then fight UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva in a super fight.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen post fight press conference
Watch the UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen Post Fight Press Conference video below.
UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen fight videos
Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen
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Roy Nelson vs. Cheick Kongo
Phil Davis vs. Vinny Magalhaes
Jim Miller vs. Pat Healy
Rustam Khabilov vs. Yancy Medeiros
Ovince St. Preux vs. Gian Villante
Sarah McMann vs. Sheila Gaff
Brian Caraway vs. Johnny Bedford
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