WOW!!!!!! And Amazing…. Those are the words that come to mind after watching Jon Jones dominate an MMA legend in Mauricio Shogun Rua.
Jon Jones now has an MMA record of 13 wins and 1 loss. His first fight in the UFC was August of 2008, where he fought on the same card as Brock Lesnar. I may have seen him fight on this show or UFC 100 (I have watched all the Lesnar UFC fights) but the first time I actually remember watching Jon Jones fight was on Spike TV. It was the very heavily hyped Ultimate Fighter Heavyweight Finale. The card was headlined by Big Country Roy Nelson, knocking out Brendan Schaub, and also featured a much hyped but very disappoint fight between Kimbo Slice and Houston Alexander. At the end of this card the one person everyone was talking about was Jon Jones.
To be simple about it he dominated Matt Hamill. For four minutes and fourteen seconds, I thought Matt Hamill was about to have a near death experience. Jon Jones was disqualified at that point when he used an illegal elbow during the fight. I became an instant fan. Then the UFC did me a huge favor by putting his next two fights a TKO win against Brandon Vera and Vladimir Matyushenko on VS. On February 5, 2011 Jon Jones made Ryan Bader submit to the guillotine choke and after that fight they announced he would get the fight against Shogun Rua at UFC 128 for the Light Heavyweight Title.
I felt like Jon Jones was getting to much hype going into the fight. I was really worried that this new star in the making was getting too much too soon. A little after midnight, there were no longer any doubts that Jon Jones was the next big thing. A legend in MMA and only 29 years old Shogun has been a dominate fighter for a very long period of time. But he looked like he was moving in slow motion. Jon Jones finally had Mercy on Shogun in the 3rd round and ended it with a punch to the gut.
They announced his next fight is going to be against Rashid Evans (Here is hoping it’s at UFC 133 in Philadelphia cause I believe I am going)
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