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Make No Bones About It Jon Jones Is The Future
5 Comments | Posted by Keith Talarico in MMA News
With an upcoming fight this Sunday August 1 at UFC on Versus 2, all eyes will be on the new kid Jonny “Bones” Jones. He will be fighting an experienced and well respected veteran in Vladimir Matyushenko. “The Janitor” (Matyushenko) feels as though he is being over looked but with Jones’ recent performances, who can blames us for looking past Vlad. If Jones does win, the questions, after this fight, will still remain. How will “Bones” Jones fare against top 10 competition, and how long will it be before he gets a title shot?
Just looking at one of Jones’ past fights in Stephan Bonnar, we saw how truly rare of a talent Jones is. All in the first round of that fight we saw some rarely used techniques in MMA. Jones threw a spinning back kick followed immediately by a side kick. He kept his distance from Bonnar with a defensive Muay Thai kick called a teep, he suplexed Bonnar, and then threw him with a Judo technique. “Bones” also dropped “The American Psycho” with a spinning back elbow! I have never seen a spinning back elbow thrown in MMA before, and I don’t think I’m the only one. Did I mention that all this happened in the first round? There could have been an argument for that round being a 10-8 round for Jones.
Jones’ one blemish, a loss to Matt Hamill, is surrounded by controversy. Is the reason Hamill couldn’t continue because of the shoulder injury he sustained from a take down, or from the illegal 12 to 6 elbow Jones landed on Hamill from the mount position? We will never know, but you cannot argue that Jones was dominating that fight. Jones took the loss in stride, saying that the loss lifted a weight from his shoulders, by getting it out of the way early in his career.
I believe Jones will win against Vlad as I stated on www.MMABadAss.com , due to his amazing physical gifts and what I call a fatherless style. Jones is trained as a wrestler, being a JUCO National Champion and a Greco Roman All-America, but seeing how well he uses Muay Thai and Judo, you would never know it. Jones is presenting as the future of MMA, he is a naturally gifted athlete who does not rely on on his bread and butter of wrestling, instead, he uses whatever technique is most useful. We have not seen much of this in MMA before, fighters tend to rely on their bread and butter. A lot of MMA fighters use unorthodox moves in training but are reluctant to use them once in the cage. Jones however, has enough confidence in his abilities to use what he practices. What make this even more amazing is that Jones is only 23 years old, but continues to perform like a grizzled veteran. With his physical gifts, confidence in his unorthodox style, and maturity beyond his years, Jon “Bones” Jones is proving to be the future of MMA.
Could “Bones” Jones one day be the face of MMA?
Written by Keith Talarico of MMAbadass.com
5 Comments for Make No Bones About It Jon Jones Is The Future
The Expo Assassin | July 28, 2010 at 1:01 AM
Dragon | July 29, 2010 at 2:12 PM
First of all, I like Jones. I think he has sick abilities. But don’t call his cage abilities that of a “grizzled veteran” when his most notable win was over Brandon Vera (I say Vera over Bonner due to the steriod controversy surrounding Bonner). Cmon, Keith. I’m sick of people annointing fighters, or athletes of any sport for that matter, without having that athelete prove himself more than once. Look at Todd Duffee. “New face of MMA. Big, strong, fast…blah blah blah.” What happens next? “Knocked out but a virtual unknown fat dude in round three of UFC 114.” Chill out for a sec. Let’s look at this responsibly. Yes, Jones has amazing athleticm and unique style. However, he hasn’t fought anyone who is good enough to defend that. Let’s see him against some better 205lb fighters (Bader, Irvin, Lil Nog who lost to Jason Brilz btw, Tito, Romero, Thiago Silva?) before we call him the new face or new generation of MMA, cuz right now, this generation is pretty damn good!
MMABADASS | July 31, 2010 at 12:24 AM
@Dragon, I not annointing him, but I do think he has a very bright future in the sport, but we will see.
Noel | July 31, 2010 at 5:12 AM
I do very much agree that “Bones” will one day be the face of MMA. Dragon has a very good point, though, in that this generation is a mighty good one, so Jones has a lot to go through to truly prove himself and one day earn that title shot.
His fight against Matyushenko will definitely be an exciting one, that’s for sure! We’ll see how this next generation fighter will prove against a true grizzled veteran.
NoMstn | August 6, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Dear Dana, Please give us Jones vs. Silva soon.
There’s something about that body type that leads to speed and power.
Great write up being that Ive trained with Phil Nurse at the Wat in and his camp i think under that kind of Muy Thai tutelage anyone especially someone with such a diverse tool box such as Jon Jones will walk through any one the put in front of him .. i think he is the future of mma