JON JONES HEADS INTO HIS TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 100
Jon Jones is long removed from his days as a YouTube warrior; mining the Internet for instructional clips he could incorporate into his arsenal.
One of his favorite concepts from his wrestling days was misdirection – fake one way and go another. Keep your opponent off-balance. Be unpredictable.
These days, he travels a great deal around his home state of New York, still learning to fight, trying to glean as many perspectives as possible. Now, everything is in real time.
A year ago, he was a bouncer with a JC wrestling championship under his belt. MMA was quick money and would support his pregnant fiancé. But it would also appeal to an unbinding love for Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali.
Bruce Lee’s strategy was, ‘the way is to have no way,’ he said. So, basically that’s just being formless, trying to incorporate as many angles, aspects, and mindsets from different trainers and cultures.
It’s been around a year since he leaped headfirst into the sport, and has a camp in Team Bomb Squad. Many peg him as the next big thing in the light heavyweight division. He did it with misdirection – grab a kick, throw a spinning elbow, stop Joe Silva in his tracks.
Wise beyond his 22 years, he’s not ready to fall into the trap of believing his own hype.
Jon Jones wants to be Bruce Lee with BJJ
JON JONES HEADS INTO HIS TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 100 Jon Jones is long removed from his days as a YouTube warrior; mining the Internet for instructional clips he could incorporate into his arsenal. One of his favorite concepts from his wrestling days was misdirection – fake one way and go another. Keep your opponent…
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