Jon Jones survived one of the scariest nights of his career on July 6, 2019.
UFC 239 will always be reminded for Jorge Masvidal who scores the fastest knockout all time.
However, Jon Jones saw one of the most difficult tests of his Hall of Fame career.
Thiago Santos almost took his light heavyweight title despite the suffering of a catastrophic injury during the first round of the fight.
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Jon Jones survived afraid of winning at UFC 239
Santos threw powerful legs, which hesitated Jones during the first round of the UFC 239 Main Event.
In addition, the Brazilian competition tore the ACL, MCL, PCL and Meniscus from his left knee.
Santos also suffered a partial ligament in his right knee, but he still pushed Jones on the edge of the defeat.
Everything turned into round three when it became abundantly clear that Santos had a filthy leg injury.
Jones slowly started his mark on the fight in the next few rounds and eventually achieved a split decision victory (47-48, 48–47, 48-47) of the Cageside jury members.
The greatest hunter of all time needed two of his cookers to wear it after the fight from the octhoek.
Jones and Santos were both seen with the help of wheelchairs after backstage on UFC 239.
Jon Jones completes the pension U-turn
Six years after UFC 239, Jones announced his retirement of MMA at the end of June.
Two weeks later Jones made a shocking U-bend on UFC pension with an announcement of a bomb.
“I just reintroduced the test pool, which lasted about two weeks,” tweeted the 37-year-old.
“I thought we would keep everyone's options open.”
The wish of Jones to fight again seems to have been linked to President Donald Trump in which it is announced that there will be a UFC event in the White House to commemorate the 250th birthday of the US, this time next year.
“Fighting in the White House?” He wrote on X after the unique UFC event was confirmed.
Jones will now start finding a viable opponent for Trump's UFC Mega-Card.
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