UFC 172 - Jones v. Glover - April 26 - Baltimore

[p_rushing]

I'm now fully cheering for Gus to get the belt he should already have. Jones starts clowning around instead of trying to finish the fight. Jones you are going to keep losing fans by the way you keep acting.

[ex carrabba fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by LingeringRegime

Who can beat this man? Only himself. Give Glover a new mouthpiece.

Gus can beat him

[LingeringRegime]

Quote: Originally Posted by ex carrabba fan

Gus can beat him

He can, but I don't think he will.

But, I look forward to them fighting again.

[Sgt_Carnage]

Quote: Originally Posted by p_rushing

I'm now fully cheering for Gus to get the belt he should already have. Jones starts clowning around instead of trying to finish the fight. Jones you are going to keep losing fans by the way you keep acting.

Geez,he just dominated the guy. I swear some freaking folks are never satisfied.

[ex carrabba fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by LingeringRegime

He can, but I don't think he will. But, I look forward to them fighting again.

I agree with both statements

[p_rushing]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sgt_Carnage

Geez,he just dominated the guy. I swear some freaking folks are never satisfied.

I've been a fan of Jones since he started, but he keeps opening his mouth and now he is showboating in the cage. Plus he has started point fighting to much. Kicking the knee and then the illegal eye poking or just forcing the opponent to stay at distance or get poked in the eye. The refs need to stop that. Jones could have easily finished that fight and he clearly wasn't concerned about Glover's power. He just wanted to play out there.

[TheShizNo1]

Quote: Originally Posted by p_rushing

I've been a fan of Jones since he started, but he keeps opening his mouth and now he is showboating in the cage. Plus he has started point fighting to much. Kicking the knee and then the illegal eye poking or just forcing the opponent to stay at distance or get poked in the eye. The refs need to stop that. Jones could have easily finished that fight and he clearly wasn't concerned about Glover's power. He just wanted to play out there.

He's dominated all of his fights except one, he can do whatever he wants in the cage. He stood right in front of Glover knowing he had the fight won AND traded with him. Lets not act like he went Anderson Silva in there.

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[Beantown]

Quote: Originally Posted by p_rushing

I've been a fan of Jones since he started, but he keeps opening his mouth and now he is showboating in the cage. Plus he has started point fighting to much. Kicking the knee and then the illegal eye poking or just forcing the opponent to stay at distance or get poked in the eye. The refs need to stop that. Jones could have easily finished that fight and he clearly wasn't concerned about Glover's power. He just wanted to play out there.

Like...what? Did we watch a different fight?

The only time Jones "showboated" in the cage was the last three seconds of the fight where he put his arms up a little early. The only time he stopped pushing the action and throwing was in the final 2 minutes or so of the fight, and you're insane if you're going to claim that if you were in Bones' shoes - with the win secured, the knowledge that you weren't going to knock him out in the last few minutes but he could steal the fight with one punch - you wouldn't slow down and back off a bit.

I don't get it. The guy had the fight won after three rounds and STILL pushed the action for 7:30 of the final 10 minutes of the fight, still stood and traded in close with an incredibly dangerous fighter, didn't dance around (a la Silva's showboating), or didn't try and lay-and-pray (a la GSP's point-fighting title defenses).

Other than the open-hand against the face thing there was absolutely zero wrong with Bones' fight this time. Crazy to say that this fight made you less of a fan. The guy is the epitome of awesome inside the cage and is as classy after the fight as you could expect someone with his talent at his age to be.

I'm just...shocked...that anyone could say that fight was Jones show-boating and risking losing fans. He dominated. He pushed the action. He stood and exchanged for 95% of the fight. We watched something different, man...we must have.