Jon “Bones” Jones
WHEN A GRUDGE MATCH LACKS GRUDGE
San Francisco, CA– Having been friends for years, there was always a question of whether or not the hype leading up to the Jon Jones-Rashad Evans match was real or just staged to make people think that World War III was about to break out. After watching Jones dissect his former stablemate over five one-side, but not explosive rounds, I almost thought that JJ was taking it easy on the 6-1 underdog Evans. Yeah, there was some flashes of brilliance form the essentially unbeaten Jones, whose only loss was by disqualification against Matt Hammill, whom he was pounding on like my used to do with cheap steak before cooking it.
BULID UP DID NOT EQUATE TO DYNAMITE
Without being redundant, I just expected more fireworks, something like an early fourth of July show, but it was not to be and Jones retained his UFC World light heavyweight (205 lbs) title with a five-five minute round unanimous decision. Scores read 49-46, 49-46 & 50-45). Jones is now 16-1, Evans a former light heavyweight champ drops to 17-2.
RESULTS OF ENTIRE CARD
While the show from Atlanta was a huge success both at the gate, the PPV and at sports bars, most people don’t know that the show started off on Facebook for an hour at 4 PM PT, before shifting to FX Cable for two hours until 7 PM PT when the Pay Per View part of the show began. We’ll work the wait it went down starting from the Facebook part of the show.
Marcus Brimage vs. Maximo Blanco (Featherweights) Brimage defeated Blanco via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 29-28).
Keith Wisniewski vs. Chris Clements (Welterweight) Clements over Wisniewski via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 30-27).
THE FX CABLE PART OF THE SHOW
Mac Danzig vs. Efrain Escudero (Lightweight) Danzig defeated Escudero via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28).
158 lb) bout saw John Makdeski beat Anthony Njokuani via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
Matt Brown vs. Stephen Thompson (Welterweight) Brown defeated Thompson via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-27, 30-27).
Travis Browne vs. Chad Griggs (Heavyweight) Browne defeated Griggs with an arm-triangle choke at 2:30 of round 1.
PPV ASPECT OF UFC 145
Mark Bocek vs. John Alessio (Lightweight) Bocek over Alessio via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28).
Mark Hominick vs. Eddie Yagin (Featherweight) Yagin bested Hominick via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
Michael McDonald KO 1 Miguel Torres (Bantamweight) at at 3:18.
McDonald defeated Torres via knockout (punches)
Ben Rothwell TKO 1 Brendan Schaub (Heavyweight) at 1:10.
Rory MacDonald TKO 2 Che Mills (Welterweight) at 2:20.
I’ll have more on the show and a preview of the next UFC event late Monday night for Tuesday morning.
Pedro Fernandez