Jon Jones has been recognized to bask in vices like ingesting and… different issues.
Saturday evening will see ‘Bones’ return to the Octagon for the primary time in 20 months when he places his undisputed heavyweight title on the road in opposition to former two-time champion and consensus heavyweight GOAT Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 in Madison Sq. Backyard. It will likely be Jones’ first time placing his gold up for grabs following a quickfire submission victory over Ciryl Gane in March 2023.
Throughout a current look on The Ariel Helwani Present, former bantamweight titleholder Aljamain Sterling recounted a pre-fight evening out in town with Jones early on of their respective careers.
“He provided me a pair pictures on the bar, and I used to be combating in like – I feel I instructed him 4 or 5 weeks, and he was combating in like two weeks,” Sterling defined. “That is within the UFC, once we have been in upstate New York. I used to be at Crew Bomb Squad, he had simply left right down to New Mexico, right down to [Jackson Wink MMA Academy]. And I used to be like ‘Am I doing one thing fallacious?’
“One thing’s not mathing, like the mathematics ain’t mathing proper now. However then I watch him on TV, he’s going on the market and he obliterates the competion, And I’m like, ‘I feel there’s one thing to be stated about that.’”
Sterling credit jon jones’ ‘meticulous preparation’ for his continued success
Regardless of a bunch of authorized points and really public issues with each alcohol and cocaine, Jon Jones has been dominant all through his profession, successful world titles in two completely different divisions and amassing a (largely) excellent report with wins over a few of the greatest names in MMA historical past.
Sterling credit a lot of Jones’ success to his painstaking preparation that seemingly offsets his extra questionable decisions exterior of the Octagon.
“I feel he’s very meticulous in his preparation with getting the seems that he must see,” Sterling continued. “The identical approach that he didn’t take the short-notice struggle with Chael Sonnen. He’s not that man. He needs to ensure he’s bought the utmost edge on you by way of realizing you in and out earlier than he’s accepting a struggle and realizing that he is aware of you higher than your self.
“And I feel when you’ve somebody who’s that devoted to what they’re making an attempt to do – that’s a harmful individual…I don’t know if a few drinks are gonna cease you. Coke, no matter it’s, I don’t assume any of that’s gonna cease you. I feel so long as you’re in form, you’re able to go” (h/t MMA Knockout).
