UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones bucked some early adversity, getting caught in a deep armbar in the first round, before dominating challenger Vitor Belfort and finishing the fight with an americana lock in the fourth round of their main event fight of UFC 152 at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It was Jones’ fourth successful title defense – all against former champions – as the prodigious fighter took an eighth straight victory and moved up to 11-1 in his UFC career. He finished seven of his last eight wins by either TKO or submission.
The 25-year-old Jones faced what may have been the biggest scare of his title run, though, after taking Belfort, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, down early in the fight and finding himself in an armbar that looked to have fully hyperextended his right arm. But Jones pulled out of it and eventually dominated the rest of the round, landing punishing elbows from on top and busting Belfort open before the bell, forcing the fight doctor to have to check out the cut between rounds.
Belfort was deemed okay to continue, but took a lot of damage from Jones’ kicks in the second while having trouble catching the champion. Belfort pulled guard near the end of the round and tried for a triangle attempt but still got the worse of the exchange on the ground.
Jones landed a couple more kicks in the third, including a big kick to the ribs that dropped Belfort to the mat. The champion followed him to the ground and controlled the round with some ground and pound, including more of his dangerous elbows, as he cruised to another round.
In the fourth, Belfort went down early and Jones capitalized, working his way into a mounted crucifix and locking an americana and got the submission win.
Jones admitted after the fight that Belfort had the armbar locked in very deep in the first round and that he felt his arm pop.
But that didn’t matter too much as the champion expectedly cruised to another one-sided defense.
source: http://www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/ufc-152-jones-recovers-from-shaky-start-to-dominate-belfort
It was Jones’ fourth successful title defense – all against former champions – as the prodigious fighter took an eighth straight victory and moved up to 11-1 in his UFC career. He finished seven of his last eight wins by either TKO or submission.
The 25-year-old Jones faced what may have been the biggest scare of his title run, though, after taking Belfort, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, down early in the fight and finding himself in an armbar that looked to have fully hyperextended his right arm. But Jones pulled out of it and eventually dominated the rest of the round, landing punishing elbows from on top and busting Belfort open before the bell, forcing the fight doctor to have to check out the cut between rounds.
Belfort was deemed okay to continue, but took a lot of damage from Jones’ kicks in the second while having trouble catching the champion. Belfort pulled guard near the end of the round and tried for a triangle attempt but still got the worse of the exchange on the ground.
Jones landed a couple more kicks in the third, including a big kick to the ribs that dropped Belfort to the mat. The champion followed him to the ground and controlled the round with some ground and pound, including more of his dangerous elbows, as he cruised to another round.
In the fourth, Belfort went down early and Jones capitalized, working his way into a mounted crucifix and locking an americana and got the submission win.
Jones admitted after the fight that Belfort had the armbar locked in very deep in the first round and that he felt his arm pop.
But that didn’t matter too much as the champion expectedly cruised to another one-sided defense.
source: http://www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/ufc-152-jones-recovers-from-shaky-start-to-dominate-belfort
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