With Jon Jones’ UFC return simply over per week away, the consensus biggest fighter of all time may get a giant enhance as his lone UFC loss may very well be overturned.
This previous weekend’s occasion in Edmonton marked the primary because the UFC introduced new rule adjustments earlier this 12 months.
The brand new guidelines that got here into impact on November 1st embrace the removing of the 12-6 downward elbow rule, in addition to unifying what deems an opponent as ‘downed’.
After all, Jon Jones‘ lone MMA loss got here as a disqualification when he used the 12-6 elbow method to open up Matt Hamill in 2009.
Jon Jones’ lone UFC loss may very well be overturned forward of UFC 309 comeback
With ‘Bones’ scheduled to make his long-awaited return to the Octagon on November 16 at UFC 309, when he takes on Stipe Miocic, the rule change has come at an ideal time.
Not solely that however the heavyweight champion may very well be given a giant enhance, because the Director of the California State Athletic Fee, Andy Foster, has backed the overturning of Jones’ lone loss.
For a number of years, UFC CEO Dana White has claimed that he has fought tooth and nail to get Jones’ loss overturned, blaming it on former referee, Steve Mazzagatti.
“The rule is what it was then, it’s completely different now,” Foster stated on The Ariel Helwani Present.
“It could be arduous to return. I’d really be supportive of eliminating that nevertheless it’s not my choice. I didn’t like the best way it was enforced again then, however that’s 14 years in the past.
“On the time, I believed there have been different methods you can deal with that scenario somewhat than flat-out giving the man a loss. Disqualification must be the final resort a referee goes to,” Foster continued.
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Jon Jones ‘feeling extra alive than ever’ as he sends heartfelt message
Though the previous UFC gentle heavyweight champion and present heavyweight champion hasn’t formally confirmed he’ll retire after his UFC 309 struggle, he has closely hinted at it.
Present interim champion, Tom Aspinall, stays hopeful that the 37-year-old will determine to stay round, nevertheless, all issues are pointing to each Jones and Miocic retiring following their upcoming struggle.
Forward of what’s probably his closing struggle contained in the UFC Octagon, Jones has admitted that he’s feeling ‘extra alive than ever’, regardless of his age.
“I really feel extra alive than ever proper now. Even in spite of everything these years, the flood of feelings I expertise after ending one other coaching camp, proper earlier than a struggle, nonetheless amazes me. The vitality, the anticipation – it’s overwhelming but additionally extremely fulfilling,” Jones acknowledged in a publish on Instagram.
“Greater than something, I’m grateful. Grateful to everybody who’s put their effort and time into this journey. We’re higher collectively, and I’m so blessed to have one of many strongest groups in Combined Martial Arts historical past.
“I can’t wait to step on the market and make you all proud as soon as once more. It’s virtually time,” Jones completed.
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