Why noone is chopping Jones legs?

[Silverblur]

When crafting a game plan you have to account for your own strengths as well as your opponent's weaknesses. No one jones has fought since shogun has has good leg kicks.

 

[Unicorn Princes]

His arms are longer than most people's legs. It doesn't seem wise.

 

[ilfirin]

Dem chicken legs though.

 

[Terminal Strike]

Because he can punch you from kicking range and he's a really good wrestler.

 

[DyinHawaiian]

Or what if

Lmao.

 

[Stinger911]

Shogun went for I think one low kick, in the second round of their fight, and Jones immediately caught it off and took him down to Elbowtown.

Jones has a very smothering fight style. Even when it's not directly smothering, he makes you feel spacial inadequacy because he's hitting you and you can't him while he's really good at holding your face even if you want to move forward. So while you're fighting in this bubble of one-way vulnerability, you also know at anytime he might use some of the best takedowns ever to get on top of you and land some of the best ground and pound ever. And if you stick your head in his stomach and try to take him down, he might lift you by your neck until you're seconds from a coma and then drop you like a corpse.

He's excellent at disrupting any semblance of a gameplan on your part, and because he's doing so much shit constantly, your mind adapts to one thing he's doing just in time for him to do the next thing , and then the adjustment process begins again and again.

It's both very strange and profound. I feel like if there wasn't the mass belief that Jones usually brings such a size and strength advantage to the cage for his fights, then Jones' creativity and strategies for the mental game would be more greatly appreciated.

Nice analysis.

Jack Slack wrote a very good article about how to beat Jones.

http://fightland.vice.com/blog/killing-the-king-jon-jones

Basically what he suggests is to circle so that Jones has trouble planting to throw oblique kicks and bobbing and weaving Joe Frazier style to confuse Jon's sense of distance.