It was more painful than expected, but Jon Jones confirmed his favoritism and defended the UFC light heavyweight belt. The challenger Alexander Gustafson He showed great heart and a good strategy to bring difficulties to the champion and come close to winning the duel, but in the end he ended up overcoming the judges' decision. The fight was the main attraction of UFC 165, an event held this Saturday (21), in Toronto, Canada.
The fight
As soon as the fight started, everyone expected a show from the champion, considered a huge favorite for the duel. Although, Alexander Gustafson I was ready to break up the party. With a lot of movement, sharp striking and up-to-date takedown defense, the Swede complicated the North American's game.
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In the first round, Gustafsson took advantage of Jon's size, landed more strikes and even knocked down the UFC champion for the first time. At the end of the first five minutes, Jones' irritation with his performance was visible.
In the second half, the champion fought harder, landing a few stomps on the Swede's knee, but once again, he stopped his rival's movement. In the third round, Alexander was better again and maintained control of the fight until the end of the fourth round. At this moment, the champion's star shone.
With just over 20 seconds left in the fourth round, Jones landed a spinning elbow and shook his rival. The champion still connected more blows and managed to turn the situation around, with the challenger being saved by the bell.
MAIS: Wilson Reis and Michel Trator win on the preliminary card
In the last round, with the fight technically tied and the fighters already exhausted due to the great fight, Jon managed to take the fight to the ground for the first time, but the challenger got up quickly. When the bell sounded announcing the end of the fight, the athletes received a standing ovation from the audience at the Air Canada Centre.
In the judges' decision, victory for Jon Jones unanimously (48×47, 48×47, 49×46). The Canadian public did not agree with the decision and wanted Alexander Gustafson the new champion was declared.
“Tonight was shocking in every way and I'm not satisfied with what I did. I worked a lot on my boxing, but maybe, necessarily, I will have to train more”, said Jones.
Check out the UFC 165 results below:
main card
Jon Jones derrotou Alexander Gustafson in the unanimous decision of the judges – for the light heavyweight belt
Renan Barao derrotou Eddie Wineland by knockout in R2 – for the interim bantamweight belt
Brendan Schaub submitted Matt Mitrione with a hand triangle in R1;
Francis Carmont defeated Costa Philippou in a unanimous decision by the judges;
Khabib Nurmagomedov defeated Pat Healy via unanimous decision;
Preliminary Card
Myles Jury defeated Mike Ricci via split decision;
Wilson reis defeated Ivan Menjivar by unanimous decision of the judges;
Stephen Thopmson defeated Chris Clements via TKO in R2;
Mitch Gagnon submitted Dustin Kimura with a guillotine choke in R1;
John makdessi derrotou Renee Forte by knockout in R1;
Michel Tractor derrotou Jesse Ronson in the judges' split decision;
Alex Caceres defeated Roland Delorme via split decision;
Daniel Omielanczuk defeated Nandor Guelmino by knockout in R3;
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in my opinion shame jon jones lost the 5 rounds he only did something in the last 20 seconds of the 4th round and took the rest it was ridiculous he is still champion
The best joke I've ever heard in all my years of life...lol
I agree with you, Gustaffson clearly won the first three rounds, and the fourth is debatable, because Jones only did something at the end. Anyone who says that Jones won the third round is crazy, wanting to compare blows to the face with kicks to keep the distance.
The best joke I've ever had in my entire life...lol
Jon Jones clearly lost the first three rounds, only winning in the 4th and 5th rounds, once again the UFC demonstrated that fights are stolen.
I completely agree, once again these referees favored the Americans, anyone who watched saw that JJ took a beating, just look at him at the end of the fight.
JJ's defeat was evident. I was thinking about subscribing to the COMBATE channel, because I really like fights and stuff...but then there were farces in a row with the fight between Andersonxweidman, VitorxJJ (Vitor was supposed to win, but who knows why he let go of the black guy's arm...) and CiganoxVelazquez I gave up, I prefer to spend my money on other things, not on this fucking scam called UFC. Shame on you, you bald bastard Dana.
jones had a great fight, he's one of the best ever! speechless!!!
“Bones” took a beating from the Swede and still came away with the victory, regrettably, another mess from these fake referees. Anyone who watched knows that Gustafsson took the first three rounds, where JJ did nothing, just got beaten.
Despite the mess with Gustaffson, this fight was good for exposing Jones' weakness...Movement... Every fighter who moved well with him gave him a hard time (Machida, Rashad Evans and Gustaffson). For this reason I think that Glover doesn't have many chances with Jones, he just moves forward… He's going to take a lot of stomps and kicks to the head.
Gusta surprised me, I thought it would be another JJ massacre, I was wrong, I just don't know the criteria for a belt, but I think that apart from a KO or submission, it's difficult for the referee to go against a champion as indisputable as JJ, but truth be told, the fight was a show in my opinion. Gusta's opinion was better until the 4th round where JJ turned things around at the end, he only won 5, my opinion 49-48 for Gusta, at most 48-48, giving a 10-10 in the 2nd round, but there's no point in crying, no belt fight You have to be very superior to win by the judges but in any case, congratulations, you did what no one could, knocked you down, bled and made JJ go backwards all the time,
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