Jon Jones would beat Sonnen at his home game using wrestling to secure take downs and eventually finish Sonnen off with some ground and pound to successfully defend his belt for the fourth time.

The athletic phenoms rise to the UFC 205 pound title was nothing short of meteoric.

Jones, a former national junior college wrestling champion from Iowa Central Community College, signed with the UFC as the youngest member of its roster at that time, as well as the fighter with its greatest wingspan (84.5 inches).

His early performances in the Octagon against grizzled competitors such as Stephan Bonnar and Jake OBrien he showed stunning displays of takedowns and striking virtuosity.

Jones, in seemingly effortless fashion, used trips, suplexes, hip throws and slams to rag doll his opposition and then blister them with elbows, spinning backfists and knees.

That view belies the hard work Jones and his training partners attest to.

He is known as a disciplined and modest student of the game who earned his technical mastery logging serious hours training with top camps, including Tristar Gym in Montreal, Canada and Jacksons Submission Fighting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jones was disqualified in his UFC: The Ultimate Finale 10 matchup with Matt Hamill for throwing illegal downward elbows from the mount, resulting in his first career loss on paper.

However, Jones had once again effortlessly dominated the proceedings up to that point, making the typically bruising Hamill look like a lost child.

In yet another step up in competition, Jones then faced dynamic Muay Thai striker Brandon Vera, and dispatched him in the first round, literally cracking Veras skull with vicious elbow shots to end the fight.

On March 19, 2011, on the biggest stage of his young professional career, Jon Jones put on his greatest performance to date, winning the UFC Light Heavyweight title at the tender age of 23.

As he had with every other opponent in his UFC career, Jones dispatched Rua effortlessly, using his stunning combination of athleticism, technical mastery and ring artistry to savage the Champion from virtually every position over the course of three lopsided rounds.

Rua ultimately tapped to a combination body strike and knee to the head that crowned Jones the UFCs newest big thing.

Despite an early career defined by superlatives, the talk following Joness amazing performance immediately ratcheted to another level, as fans began to debate whether he would prove an all-time great.

Jon Jones holds the distinction of having the most consecutive victories over former UFC Champions in the history of the promotion.

Machidas mixture of kicks and elusive striking had Jones of balance, and the young champion was hit with several clean shots.

However Bones rebounded in the second round, and capitalized on Machida dropping his rear round on a counter punch, which led to the choke.

His next bout with Evans was strongly anticipated as there had been a lot of public bad blood, as Rashad Evans felt Jones should not have taken his shot at Shogun.

Evans felt so strongly about this that he cut all ties with their mutual trainer Greg Jackson.

Many felt Evans was the man to beat Jones, due to his knowledge of Jones from their time training together, as well as his wrestling pedigree.

However, Evans was not able to answer Jones superior reach, tepe kicks, and standing elbow strikes, which are not commonly seen in MMA.Jones then fought Vitor Belfort, who was replacing an injured Dan Henderson.

The underdog Belfort nearly pulled of the upset with an armbar in the first round.

Luckily for Jones, he survived and controlled the rest of the fight, before submitting the Phenom in the fourth round.

Jones would then coach opposite of Chael Sonnen in the next Ultimate Fighter with the two of them facing off on April 27th at UFC 159.

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