Jon Jones is your new UFC heavyweight champion and adds to his case for being the greatest fighter in mixed martial arts history. Jones locked in a guillotine choke on Ciryl Gane in the opening round of their main event bout at UFC 285 to force the tap and earn the title.
"I was faithful to the goal. I was faithful to the mission," Jones told UFC commentator Joe Rogan post-fight. "There were days that I didn't want to be there."
Jones absorbed only one strike in the whole fight and it was an illegal kick to the groin. Jones did not miss a beat despite a three-year absence from the sport. Pundits proclaimed that Jones' clearest path was wrestling his opponent and the champ agreed. Jones cornered Gane, secured an early takedown and locked up a guillotine choke against the fence. It was a short, flawless and somewhat anti-climatic performance that lasted only two minutes and four seconds.
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Jones subsequently called out former UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, adding fuel to Miocic's statement earlier this week that he'd fight the winner at UFC 290 on July 8 for UFC International Fight Week.
"Oh yeah, baby! You want to see me beat Stipe?" Jones asked the crowd. "The one thing I know about the UFC is we give the fans what they want to see. Stipe Miocic, I hope you're training, my guy. You're the greatest heavyweight of all time. That's what I want. I want you, real bad."
"Good for him," Miocic told UFC broadcaster Megan Olivia backstage. "Yay, he won. I'll see him in July. Nothing has changed. I'm going to train my ass off and beat his ass."
Many of the questions surrounding Jones' return -- how well would he shake off ring rust and would the additional weight affect his movement -- largely remain. For Gane's part, there were concerns over the quality of his defensive grappling after being taken down repeatedly by Francis Ngannou in their fight last year. Ultimately, Jones exceeded expectations and Gane proved critics right in the worst way possible.
"This is the first real loss I have. The loss to Francis was not a big loss for me. This one is so painful," Gane told reporters at the UFC 285 post-fight press conference. "So now, this is the past and I must go forward to see the future. I'm going to go straight back to the gym."
Jones joins an exclusive list of fighters to capture UFC titles in two divisions alongside Randy Couture, BJ Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo.
Meanwhile, Alexa Grasso shocked the world by submitting Valentina Shevchenko in Round 4 to claim the women's flyweight title. The win ended the longest active title reign in the promotion and sent shockwaves through the 125-pound division. Grasso also joined Brandon Moreno and Yair Rodriguez as the third Mexican champion in promotional history.
But even those two weren't the only impressive performances on Saturday night. Shavkat Rakhmonov continued to do Shavkat Rakhmonov things with a late submission of Geoff Neal. Matuesz Gamrot grinded out a decision over a game Jalin Turner at lightweight. And Bo Nickal made a very successful debut in the UFC with a first-round submission of Jamie Pickett to open the PPV.
CBS Sports was with you the entire way on Saturday bringing you all the results and highlights from the UFC 285 below.
UFC 285 card and results
Jon Jones (c) def. Ciryl Gane via first-round submission (guillotine choke)
Jones locked in a guillotine choke on Ciryl Gane in the opening round of their main event bout at UFC 285 to force the tap and earn the title. "I was faithful to the goal. I was faithful to the mission," Jones told UFC commentator Joe Rogan post-fight. "There were days that I didn't want to be there."
In what was his heavyweight debut, Jones dragged Gane down and submitted him with a front guillotine choke, but Gane said Jones' strength did not surprise him. “Like I said before this fight, I knew already Jon Jones is an athlete,” Gane told MMA Junkie on Wednesday.
Jon Jones defeated Ciryl Gane in the first round via a guillotine choke to win the heavyweight title. For his impressive performance, Jones earned a staggering amount of $6.4 million. This is one of the biggest payouts in the history of the UFC. Cyril Gane, on the other hand, earned $1.2 million dollars.
Closing in from the rear, Jones locked in a guillotine choke under the chin and applied pressure until Gane tapped out. The referee called a stop to the contest at 2 minutes, 4 seconds, pronouncing Jones the winner and new UFC Heavyweight Champion.
He won the bout and earned the title via a guillotine choke submission in the first round. After the fight, Jones earned the Performance of the Night bonus award. Jones was scheduled to defend his title against former heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic on November 11, 2023, at UFC 295.
UFC 285: Jon Jones submits Ciryl Gane in first round for vacant heavyweight title. Jon Jones ended a three-year sabbatical from the UFC, moved up to its highest weight class and emphatically won the heavyweight belt Saturday night with a first-round submission over Ciryl Gane.
He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion. A professional fighter since 2014, Gane has also formerly competed for TKO Major League MMA where he was the Heavyweight Champion.
Ngannou said he was offered around $8 million to fight Jones and to sign a three-fight contract with no extension. He had hoped to fight Jones twice and book a rubber match against former heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. "It was a multi-fight deal.
The result: The former longtime UFC light heavyweight champion actually weighed more than his opponent Friday morning. Jones hit the scale at 248 pounds, which is 43 more pounds than he would weigh in for UFC light heavyweight title fights.
UFC champion Jon Jones arrested for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill anti-doping agent. The drug-testing officer has claimed Jones became angry about the sample collection process, took her phone and then put his face close to hers before saying people who arrive at his house early "end up dead".
Jones is a two-time undisputed UFC light heavyweight champion, first holding the title from March 2011 to April 2015 and then again from December 2018 to August 2020. Jon Jones won Fighter of the Year in 2011. Jones briefly held the interim UFC light heavyweight title in 2016 and in 2017.
Later on in the year, Jones made history by being the first fighter ever to be stripped of his title twice by the UFC after the he tested positive for clomiphene and letrozole, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
This is the guy who among his 26 wins has beaten six former UFC champions, two UFC Hall of Famers and a Bellator two-weight champion. Jones will fight on Saturday for the vacant UFC heavyweight title, stripped from Francis Ngannou when he was unable to come to terms with the UFC on a new contract.
Jones hasn't fought since beating Ciryl Gane to win the heavyweight title in his debut at that weight class at UFC 285. He was scheduled to defend the championship against Miocic in the main event of UFC 295 at Madison Square Garden, but a torn pectoral tendon suffered in training forced him to withdraw from the event.
"I just wanted more, I wanted to be nervous again.I wanted to have fear again. I think fear is healthy, and now we're in this position. The heavyweight division has never been scarier, and I'm glad to be in the middle of it."
In a surprising turn of events, Holyfield, who was given virtually no chance to win by numerous commentators, defeated Tyson by TKO when referee Mitch Halpern stopped the bout in round eleven. Holyfield became the second boxer to win a heavyweight championship belt three times.
Ciryl "Bon Gamin" Gane is a French MMA ( Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, known for his highly technical and strategic fighting style as well as his aerial footwork, a rare quality in his weight category. He is considered today as one of the most promising fighters of his generation.
Jones defeated Ciryl Gane with a guillotine choke at 2 minutes, 4 seconds of the first round Saturday in the main event of UFC 285 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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