This storyline is going to be a little outside the normal box for ITLH. This series talks about the rise and fall of former UFC Champion, Jon Jones.
Now it’s time to continue our discussion into the youngest of the Jones family. Jon Jones.
So we left our story off with Jon becoming the youngest champion in UFC history, that night was far from being the pinnacle of the young champion. As we previously discussed he went through a gauntlet of who’s who in the light-heavy weight division.
Over the next four years he was an unstoppable juggernaut, repeatedly fighting and soundly defeating one top contender after another.
In his first fight as a champion, he dominated the steel chain wearing, howling at the moon tough man Rampage Jackson. Submitting the former champion in the fourth round on his way to Fight of the Night honors.
Next up, the young Jones went up against another former UFC Champion, Lyoto ‘The Dragon’
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Machida. Jones with his unique fighting style and freakish abilities pulled off a standing guillotine choke that stands today as one of the most unique and impressive submissions in UFC history.
He continues his winning streak defeating former teammate Rashad Evans, future UFC Hall of Famer Vitor Belfort, ‘the Bad Guy’ Chael Sonnen, his newest Twitter nemesis Alexander Gustafsson (we will talk more about this in an upcoming article) and Glover Teixeria.
A brief side note and plug for this writer as Father of the Millennia, I took my son (leader of the Inside the Loud House) Paul A Esden Jr to the Glover Teixeria fight. Flying him into Baltimore on his twenty-first birthday for an awesome weekend that include photo-op with UFC legend Uriah Faber, attending UFC 172 and stalking Chuck “The Ice Man” Liddell in the Baltimore airport. But I digress …
Jon Jones a deeply spiritual person, which should come as no surprise as his father is a Pastor, has a biblical tattoo on his chest. Philippians 4:13 which quotes:
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”
To summarize, at the age of 23 he won the UFC Light-Heavy weight title, he went on to rattle off seven straight title defenses. Along the way earning three Fight of the Night honors and one Submission of the Night.
The undisputed best pound for pound fighter in the UFC and arguably of all time. The youngest Jones had reached the top of the mountain. And then … another biblical quote rears its ugly head.
Next: Part Four Something In The Water:The Meteoric Rise of Jon ‘Bones’ Jones
Proverbs 16:18
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall”
We will delve into this in Part 6 The Mightier the fall …