Jackonflame
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He's got a black belt in eye pokes though.
Really not something to be proud of.
He's got a black belt in eye pokes though.
BJJ practitioners are about 100x more common and it's used much more than judo in MMA.
Let's use some common sense here.
Being a white belt in BJJ does not reflect on grappling/submission skills at all. See: Matt Hughes and Josh Barnett
I'm the dude who actually took that picture. Jon has been working with our head blackbelt tussa since last feb I believe. Jon has only trained a few times In the gi so tussa won't promote him until he spends more training time in the gi. Jon is an absolute beast in nogi and learns super quick. I'm sure if he ever dedicates time to gi training he will be tapping out blackbelts in a short amount of time
Kinda funny how a guy like rogan would probably submit jones in a bjj match but in an actual fight jones would destroy him badly, funny how back when royce gracie was dominating the scene people thought that bjj was the is all end all martial art.
I'm the dude who actually took that picture. Jon has been working with our head blackbelt tussa since last feb I believe. Jon has only trained a few times In the gi so tussa won't promote him until he spends more training time in the gi. Jon is an absolute beast in nogi and learns super quick. I'm sure if he ever dedicates time to gi training he will be tapping out blackbelts in a short amount of time
I don't buy that he is a white belt. Judo black belts often start out in BJJ with a blue belt. I can't imagine Jon at this point not being at least at a purple level.
Next thing we'll hear from you : I'm the Epic Boo Guy
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I'm the manager of Gracie barra New Mexico and have also fought mma out of jacksons mma. You can check my post history in the grappling section for proof.
There are a large amount of very good grapplers without BJJ ranks. Jones has an awesome skillset, but this isn't an area where he's unique. It's more to do with BJJ belts not being the sole proof of a good grappler.I been saying this! Jones is on another planet. Name another white belt that chokes out black belt machida or takes legit black belt Vitors arm home? I'm waiting...