LAS VEGAS — In the last 15 months, Amanda Nunes, who was widely acclaimed as the greatest women's mixed martial artist ever, lost her championship. On Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 285 at T-Mobile Arena, Valentina Shevchenko, who is clearly the greatest flyweight of all time, was submitted and lost her championship to Alexa Grasso.
The point is, in mixed martial arts, anything can happen at any time.
He submitted Gane on Saturday with a guillotine choke 37 months later and 44 pounds higher than he was the last time he fought in the UFC. Then, he looked human in a win over Dominick Reyes at UFC 247 on Feb. 8, 2020, but he did enough to retain his light heavyweight title. Jones is now 27-1, with his only loss being a disqualification against Matt Hamill in a fight he was on the verge of finishing. He landed a 12-6 elbow and instead of losing a point, he was disqualified.
Jones handled the low-brow question perfectly — “Believe me,” he said, “you do not want to see me lit.” — just like he did everything else leading up to the fight. T-Mobile Arena was sold out on Saturday with 19,471 fans packed. The gate of $12.15 million was the fourth highest in UFC history and the largest for an event headlined by heavyweights.“When I first got to the UFC, I would talk about God a lot and trying to be a good person,” Jones said. “But then people got to see that my life wasn’t perfect. I made mistakes. I sinned and I fell down. I think a lot of people looked at me as a fake individual.
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