😁 Now that elbows are legal in MMA, Jon Jones wants to get a 12-6 elbow KO victory.
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November 9, 2024
For Jon Jones, finishing the UFC 309 headliner with 6-for-12 elbows will somewhat correct the only stain on his record.
Jones’ perfect record was ruined by a controversial disqualification loss to Matt Hamill in December 2009. Jones hurt Hamill with a 12-6 elbow on the ground, which was illegal at the time, and referee Steve Mazzugatti was forced to stop the fight. first round. Jones recalls that maintaining a perfect record in the UFC was very important to him. Seeing him suffer his only loss as a professional, “Bones” was devastated and cried backstage.
“When we lost that night, I actually cried backstage,” Jones told ESPN. “That really hit home for me. I always had a vision in my mind of doing MMA right. I’ve had a lot of failures in my life. Even as an adult, there were a lot of things I wasn’t good at. .And with the UFC I was like, “Okay, I’m an adult.” My life is now in my control. “…I wanted to have the perfect MMA career.
UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic. Saturday at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN+. Order now!
After years of debate over the 12-6 elbow, the 12-6 elbow was finally legalized under the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, which went into effect on November 1st. Jones wants to make up for his loss against Hamill, but he’s more excited about doing it legally. Right now I’m using 12 to 6 elbows. The heavyweight champion is scheduled to defend his belt against Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 309 on November 16th at Madison Square Garden in New York. If Jones can finish Miocic with a 12-6 elbow, it would even the loss for former light heavyweight champion Hamill.
“A few years later, the 12-to-6 elbow is now legal. It’s very exciting… It would be very exciting if we could reverse that,” Jones said. “But now I embrace the 12-to-6 elbow. I train with it all the time. I’m excited that I might be one of the first athletes to use it in the arena now that it’s legal.” And to be one of the few athletes to lose to that…I mean, if I could knock him out with a 12-6 elbow, that would be really great.”
