Jones' most underrated attribute

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Is his willingness to win rounds and take the win and go home.

He does not take unnecessary risks.

His pride will not make him change the course of the fight if he is winning and he is always winning.

Add to that his very impressive chin, long reach, strength, variety of techniques, ambidextrous approach, conditioning and you have a very tough man to beat.

But he isn't going to beat himself. He isn't going to take rounds off, and he isn't going to slip up and give his opponent a chance to get in the fight.

Yoda taught him well and trained him to WIN. Even if it is not a finish or the most exciting fight ever (though he can do that too)
 
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Agree!! New GSP-Jones is amazing!!!!! It was soooooo brutal watching OSP knees get destroyed 3x more than Rampage!! Just incredible main event. Love it
 
greg jackson teaches his best guys to fight conservatively.
 
he did a whole bunch of spinning attacks just because

he couldve taken OSP down and pounded him out whenever he felt like it, but he didnt. idk if it was just to put on a show or to work the rust off his striking, but the whole fight was an unnecessary risk
 
underrated attribute?

that's his fight. his approach is one of positional brilliance, not at all one of excitement. that's what drives everything he does during a fight.
 
Summoning said:
translation: boring
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Yea cuz Bones has proven over his entire career to be boring..

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He's certainly not risk averse because he fights from distance, phone booth, open water, clinch, whatever.

If he was a safe fighter he would have taken down OSP from go, he was happy to kick box with him for minutes at a time. He was throwing spinning elbows and kicks FFS.

What you are describing is his fight IQ. He has some of the best fight IQ we've seen in the history of the sport.
 
Pwent said:
he did a whole bunch of spinning attacks just because

he couldve taken OSP down and pounded him out whenever he felt like it, but he didnt. idk if it was just to put on a show or to work the rust off his striking, but the whole fight was an unnecessary risk
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I was thinking something similar while watching. It seemed like Jones was trying to win with something flashy and that's why all the kicks, including the spinning stuff. It was only near the end of the 4th that he finally took him down and started to use elbows. Ovince was pretty much just playing defense the whole fight though. It's hard to look great against someone who's taking so few chances they have hardly any offense at all.
 
rjmbrd said:
He's certainly not risk averse because he fights from distance, phone booth, open water, clinch, whatever.

If he was a safe fighter he would have taken down OSP from go, he was happy to kick box with him for minutes at a time. He was throwing spinning elbows and kicks FFS.

What you are describing is his fight IQ. He has some of the best fight IQ we've seen in the history of the sport.
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this is all true. tonight was a boring fight, no doubt. I think he could have taken OSP down and stopped him rather than his approach tonight.

My buddy just texted me and said he's not buying anymore Jones fights. For me it depends on what the rest of the card looks like. I bought tonight because I'm a Mighty Mouse fan. Jones has been a 5 round planner for a while now. He makes it boring.
 
reveler said:
greg jackson teaches his best guys to fight conservatively.
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I don't always love the lack of excitement that it produces. However, it is on the Challenger to beat the champion. As long as Jones is winning, no one can fault him.

That's why every time someone complained about GSP I would just say too bad you go beat him then.
 
Very GSP like imo. I guess he could do an Aldo and play into his oppoents hands in the big fight and get knocked out in 10 seconds. Or goof around like Anderson Silva and get knocked out cold like in the Weidman fight. Win and advance. At the end of the day, wins are what will define your career.
 
gaidojutsu teaches that decisions are good for your soul.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Is his willingness to win rounds and take the win and go home.

He does not take unnecessary risks.

His pride will not make him change the course of the fight if he is winning and he is always winning.

Add to that his very impressive chin, long reach, strength, variety of techniques, ambidextrous approach, conditioning and you have a very tough man to beat.

But he isn't going to beat himself. He isn't going to take rounds off, and he isn't going to slip up and give his opponent a chance to get in the fight.

Yoda taught him well and trained him to WIN. Even if it is not a finish or the most exciting fight ever (though he can do that too)
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As a Jones fan, I will definitely take a 50-45 against a short notice guy with KO power, all the while having over a year off due to legal woes. His will to win is unquestionable. I'll take it. He moves to 22-1 and we get the DC rematch.
 
When you say yoda you mean the same guy who taught this guy this?
 
IK00PA said:
When you say yoda you mean the same guy who taught this guy this?
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Nobody taught Guida the fucking Bunny hop... he learned that ridiculous nonsense in a bounce house somewhere with a bag of meth
 
MusterX said:
As a Jones fan, I will definitely take a 50-45 against a short notice guy with KO power, all the while having over a year off due to legal woes. His will to win is unquestionable. I'll take it. He moves to 22-1 and we get the DC rematch.
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"and we get the DC rematch" ... good point.

AND we got a Jones fight tonight. He could very easily have pulled out of the fight tonight but instead chose to go get paid, get some work in and I think he will be a better fighter in the DC rematch because of it.

Also of note:

That is Jones' 10th title fight win in a row.
....... Anderson won 11 so if Jon beats DC he will tie Anderson. (for that relatively meaningless record)

That was Jon's 17th UFC fight.
........Anderson won 16 in a row before losing to Chris. Seeing as how Jon murdered the shit out of Hamill he has basically taken that record as well, though not technically due to the DQ. 17 UFC appearances with 16 wins and 1 DQ in which he demolished his opponent (the ref literally asked Matt Hamill if he wanted to continue and waived it off when he did not reply... think about that for a second. Had Matt have said yes, it probably would have been considered a foul and a point deduction, but since Matt didn't reply to the question he didn't know he was being asked the fight was stopped on that foul and ended as a DQ.... gotta love referees, well done Mazzagatti)



Good to see Jones back in the cage. Hopefully he doesn't do anything else to get in the way of his fighting career and we can see him fight more and go to court less.
 
Wait now. Everyone in the top 10 would've easily beaten him tonight with a full camp. :rolleyes:
 
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