The heavyweight champion of the UFC has only one loss on its record caused by a disqualification.
Although many fans have hit the reason why Dominick Reyes should have been given his hand against Jon Jones, the simple fact is that he didn't.
'Bones' is not surpassed in the Octagon and you can really see how competitive he is like Jones reacts to Reyes to this day.
Nevertheless, some wonders whether Jones is more vulnerable than ever before in the midst of conversations about a potential collision with Tom Aspinall that would finally see the heavyweight titles united.
A man who has trained the greatest of the best consensus of all time in his career believes that what separates him from the rest is his ability to appear in the night and declares that he was not always dominant in the gym.
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Keith Jardine says Rashad Evans Jon Jones would hit the gym, but it was a different story when they fought
When it comes to both natural talent and championship experience, there are few who can keep a candle to Jon Jones with what he has achieved in his career.
'Bones' became the youngest champion of all time after he had replaced his injured teammate Rashad Evans to cope with Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua for the light heavyweight title on UFC 128.
After this, a rivalry between Jones and his former training partner at Jackson's started to develop with the first title defense of the new champion to be against Evans.
The fight happened no more than a year for various reasons, in which Jones submitted both Quinton Jackson and Lyoto Machida in the meantime before it was time to arrange the feud with Evans on UFC 135.
Jones did exactly that after the emerging victor in a one -sided fight, but Keith Jardine, who regularly spent time in the same training room as both men, recently revealed that it was not always the case.
Jardine spoke on the Jaxxon -Podcast about how Jones was very inexperienced when he first started training with them, but by the time the fight with Evans had arrived, it was clear that he was another hunter when he competed under the fierce lights.
“Jon is een rare kattenman. Hij kwam alleen in Jackson's kijken naar YouTube -video's, geen echte coaching en dat alles en hij was (Stephan) Bonnar aan het afstoffen en zulke mensen en daarna kort daarna, Hall of Famers. Zijn Grappling's gewoon, zijn worstelen die het was, zijn worstelen die het was, maar dat ik het was, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het, maar je zag het toen ik nog steeds zag, maar je zag het toen ik het was, maar je zag het, maar je zag het toen ik nog steeds zag, maar je zag het toen ik het was, maar je zag het, maar je zag het toen ze nog steeds zag, maar je zag het toen ik Saw, but you saw it when she still saw, but you saw it when she still saw, but you saw it when I was.
“He just turns a link on man. Like I save with him all the time, I win a bit, he wins a bit, whatever, but in the fight this sounds strange, but I really think that when he comes into the zone, he experiences the time differently than we do. I think everything moves a little slower for him.”
Keith Jardine says that Jon Jones' focus is why he looked vulnerable in light heavyweight
While Keith Jardine believes that Jon Jones has an incredible ability to be completely at the moment that he is in the Octagon, he believes that he is not what made him vulnerable during his last fighting in light heavyweight.
Before Jones left the title, his last defense against Dominick Reyes was in the fight that people still point out when they look at the weaknesses of the champion.
Jardine said that because 'Bones' was not motivated during his last few title defenses that he opponents faced opponents that everyone expected to defeat, he was unable to enter that zone of focus as he did earlier in his career.
“I think he started losing a bit there in light heavyweight when he fights these people and he has no idea who they are and they are just people who fight him like:” I will be the one who beats Jones, “and he is just like (shoulder pick).
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