Jon Jones is again, and as soon as once more has UFC gold round his waist.
At UFC 285, Jones made his heavyweight debut in opposition to Ciryl Gane to compete for the vacant title. The combat didn’t make it out of the primary spherical, as Jones completed Gane with a guillotine choke, coming away nearly unscathed with the heavyweight championship. Jones’ return additionally marks his return to the heavyweight division rankings and the highest of the lads’s pound-for-pound lists.
The co-main occasion of the pay-per-view in Las Vegas brought on an enormous shakeup within the girls’s rankings. Alexa Grasso pulled off an unbelievable upset of Valentina Shevchenko to win the ladies’s flyweight title, making historical past as the primary lady from Mexico to carry UFC gold. Grasso’s win vaults her to the highest of the divisional rankings, whereas coming into the highest 10 of the ladies’s pound-for-pound.
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