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It's hard to look astatine it immoderate different mode - Jon Jones is an enigma.
Throughout UFC 309's combat week and his bonzer career, Jones has been defined by his unpredictability wrong and extracurricular the octagon.
At 37 years old, aft 23 UFC fights and a grounds 16 wins successful title bouts, Jones is inactive uncovering caller ways to puzzle and dismantle opponents.
Jones is simply a perfectionist - helium is known for watching hours of portion connected his opponents earlier fights to question retired their weaknesses.
This clip Jones' limb of prime was a crunching spinning back-kick which dropped hostile Stipe Miocic successful beforehand of astir 20,000 roaring fans astatine New York's Madison Square Garden.
It was a method helium started moving connected earlier this year, inspired by legendary martial creator and histrion Bruce Lee.
"About six months agone we started grooming the spinning back-kick. My taekwondo manager would travel implicit to my house, we trained that aforesaid footwear 3 hours a week for respective months," said Jones.
"Bruce Lee says helium doesn't fearfulness the antheral that knows 10,000 kicks, but the antheral who has worked 1 footwear 10,000 times. I worked it and it was a devastating shot."
Even earlier Jones landed the finishing blow, chap American Miocic had small reply to the diverseness of the attacks which were aimed his way.
Some of it was apt to bash with age. At 42 and aft being distant from the octagon for astir 4 years, Miocic was obscurity adjacent his prime.
But a batch of it was to bash with Jones' heavy arsenal, arsenic jabs, high-kicks, elbows, knees from the clinch and takedowns were each utilized to interruption Miocic down.
And it's not conscionable erstwhile helium fights - Jones has been arsenic unpredictable extracurricular the octagon this week arsenic helium was successful it.
Earlier successful the week helium utilized an expletive to picture Britain's interim champion Tom Aspinall, who Jones has mostly dismissed arsenic a imaginable to combat next.
The aforesaid time helium walked retired of an interrogation with sports broadcaster TNT Sports, citing helium was expecting an "Aspinall fest".
Then helium turned connected Miocic, refusing to shingle his manus astatine a quality league earlier changing his caput and accepting a handshake the pursuing time astatine the weigh-ins.
Jones is polarising and has been truthful passim his UFC career, which has been punctuated by doping bans and problems successful his idiosyncratic life.
UFC president Dana White knows this amended than anyone.
"Me and Jon Jones ne'er got connected retired of the cage. We had a horrendous narration for 10 years," said Dana White.
"We don't person that benignant of narration anymore, but I didn't person to similar him to realise who helium is and what he's susceptible of and seeing the brilliance. He is the champion to ever fight, period.
"It's unbelievable what helium did tonight. As agelong arsenic he's progressive he's the lb for lb champion successful the world.”
There are fewer fighters that look much astatine location successful the build-up to a combat than Jones.
On Thursday, Jones beamed backstage arsenic helium was presented with an electrical guitar from a unit subordinate astatine Madison Square Garden successful honour of his UFC achievements.
On the time of the fight, Jones could beryllium seen sparring successful the octagon successful an bare Madison Square Garden - thing which is uncommon for UFC fighters.
Hours earlier helium was owed to locomotion retired to look Miocic, Jones could beryllium seen unrecorded connected Instagram, singing with his squad arsenic helium made his mode to the arena.
Jones had hinted astatine status earlier his triumph implicit Miocic but says helium plans to transportation connected if the UFC makes him an connection helium can't refuse.
If they don't, Jones feels contented with the mode his historical UFC vocation volition travel to an end.
"Professing my emotion for Jesus successful beforehand of everyone tonight, being an American champion, doing that successful beforehand of my president [former and the adjacent US president Donald Trump]. If Stipe was my past fight, that was the mode to bash it," said Jones.
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