Jon Jones runs through Ciryl Gane for heavyweight championship (Video)

He is again, he is the heavyweight champion, and it could simply now be solidified that Jon Jones is the GOAT after submitting Ciryl Gane at UFC 285.

After three years away from the Octagon, Jones is a UFC champion as soon as once more — and he is prolonged his legacy within the course of. Some thought that his battle on Saturday with Ciryl Gane would go the gap and maybe must be selected factors. There was additionally a contingency who thought that Jones was at risk of doubtless of shedding the battle and could be formally rendered irrelevant in UFC playing cards of the long run.

None of that got here to cross, and Jones had extra than simply his opponent in a submission maintain on Saturday night time.

Jones submitted Ciryl Gane in about two minutes to grow to be the UFC heavyweight champion. To the chagrin of some and pleasure of others, he isn’t going wherever anytime quickly.

After an unlucky kick to Jones’s groin within the battle’s first moments, the 2 felt one another out earlier than Jones scored a takedown a minute into the battle.

Jones was in a position to transition his physique right into a guillotine try on a seated-up Gane, the place he scored the submission.

Jones now joins only a handful of fighters to win UFC gold in two weight courses — and particularly becoming a member of Randy Couture and former archnemesis Daniel Cormier as the one ones to win titles at gentle heavyweight and heavyweight.