Jon Jones defeat Ciryl Gane to bring home the UFC heavyweight championship and become a two-weight title holder at UFC 285 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
The 35-year-old was making his heavyweight debut and his most memorable appearance in the octagon for a long time, however required only two minutes to submit Gane and leave a mark on the world.
Jones constrained his French rival to tap from a guillotine gag in the initial round not long after taking the battle to the floor, fixing an earnest triumph and underlining his status as perhaps of the best fighters throughout the entire existence of the game.
A previous undisputed ruler of the light heavyweight division, Jones made the move forward to heavyweight following three years out to take on a laid-out heavyweight in Gane, who had proactively lost one world title session before.
The title, which was left empty after Francis Ngannou left the company, implies that Jones turns out to be only the eighth individual in UFC history to bring home world titles at two unique weights.
Any semblance of Georges St-Pierre, Conor McGregor and BJ Penn have all dealt with the accomplishment before, while Randy Couture and Daniel Cormier are the main men to have recently won both the light heavyweight and heavyweight titles.
Jones has now brought home each of the 16 of his championship battles in the UFC, while his in general MMA record remains at 27 successes and only one loss, a disputable disqualification in 2009 from 29 battles.
Currently viewed by a larger number of people as the best ever, Jones’ most recent success adds further weight to his case for that crown, and he burned through no time in focusing on his next rival, double cross previous heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, who was ringside for the session.
Stipe Miocic, I trust you’re preparing. You’re the best heavyweight ever and I need you. I need you really bad, Jones said after his success.
Somewhere else at UFC 285, Alexa Grasso pulled off a dazzling upset to stifle out Valentina Shevchenko and come out on top for the flyweight championship, turning into Mexico’s most memorable female UFC champion.
Shevchenko is broadly viewed as the best flyweight in UFC history having not lost starting around 2017 and effectively guarded her title multiple times since winning it in 2018.
Nonetheless, she was gotten out while endeavoring a turning back-kick in the fourth round as Grasso took her back and made her tap with a back bare gag.
Shavkat Rakhmonov kept up with his ideal profession record by submitting Geoff Neal in their welterweight session, moving to 17-0, while Mateusz Gamrot beat Jalin Turner and Bo Nickal beat Jamie Pickett.
