Football Results Today Fixtures. Results Today Fixtures. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix December Max Verstappen 2. A late knee injury pulled Evans from the card. Jones, who was less than a month removed from beating Ryan Bader, accepted the chance to replace him on short notice after receiving Evans' blessing. Jones destroyed Rua to become the youngest UFC champion in history at 23, but it wasn't until Evans caught wind of an interview months later in which Jones shared he would be willing to fight his teammate that the fracture took place.
One year later, after two attempts to make the fight fell through due to injuries, Jones and Evans faced off in Atlanta at UFC I remember when we first locked up and hit each other, I just felt like a wave of exhaustion. We just both took a deep breath because there was so much emotion into that fight. But working through the fight and having it happen, it was a big healing process in the whole thing. The victory for Jones will be best remembered as a thorough one, taking place within an insane span of 16 months in which Jones defeated former pound champions Rua, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Evans and Vitor Belfort, in succession.
Yet, among the five victories, Evans was the only fighter to survive the five-round distance. Years later, Jones was quick to dispel the myth some people have that he chose to carry Evans to the finish line out of some form of respect or pity. The line from Jones triggered an animated response from Evans, who jumped in to add, "They worked a bit, they worked a bit. I was looking like 'goonie goo goo' for about two weeks after that.
But Rashad Evans kept fighting," Jones continued. I gave him my best. It was my first real rivalry. Jones manages to beat his opponents to the punch because of his frame. It gives him such an advantage that he can, at times, wait for his opponent to begin a course of action, and then counter that, landing first from long range. Evans, on the other hand, simply is the faster fighter. You can see it in his movements, be they short or long, offensive or defensive. In the fight game, one saying has proven true with shocking regularity: speed kills.
Evans has that kind of speed, with both his hands and feet. This is why fans point to Jones as a wunderkind. He is still very young at the game, but has pulled off submissions against some excellent fighters who have spent far more time in the study of jiu-jitsu than Jones has put into the study of the fight game overall.
Once again, daring and leverage help Jones, but there is more to it than that. He seems to understand the basics so well that he can extrapolate intricacies worthy of an established BJJ black belt. Thus far, Evans seems to have either disregarded this aspect of the game or decided to focus on defense rather than offense. That bit of hubris may cost him, because when it comes to submissions, the clear advantage goes to Jones.
When it comes to the area of experience, the question is a simple one: Which is better, quantity or quality? There is more to this field than a list of each fighter's opponents. What it is really about is how Evans and Jones allow their respective experience to influence how they make game plans and how they react to adversity.
It is one of the few intangibles that is worth its weight in gold, especially title gold. Evans has had more time in the cage on the big stage than Jones, by far. Odds are, when this fight starts to get ugly and aspects of each man's game are thwarted by the other, it will be Evans who reasserts himself with greater conviction. There is math in everything, and part of the formula for fight math is timing. Once one fighter gets his timing down, such as Ray Leonard did in his rematch with Roberto Duran, the other man usually gets beaten to a pulp just trying to catch up with the music.
Even if it does turn out that Jones does have a suspect chin, it is doubtful that Evans is the one to put Jones' lights out. This is due to the reach difference and the fact that the only people that Evans cleanly knocked out were Forrest Griffin, Chuck Liddell, Sean Salmon and Jason Lambert—two fighters with less than stellar chins and two journeymen who aren't even with the UFC.
This one is obvious. Simply put, Jones would have access to better training partners and better coaches. Thus, he will be better prepared and have a better game plan. What is meant by "overall skill set" is which fighter has the best skills to defeat the other. The answer is Jon Jones by far. Jones has battered every opponent that has come from a wrestling background; Rashad Evans comes from a wrestling background.
Matt Hamill, Vladimir Matyushenko, Brandon Vera primarily fights as a striker but was an accomplished Greco-Roman wrestler and Ryan Bader were all helpless against Jones' takedowns and could not use their wrestling to return to their feet for a prolonged amount of time once smothered by Jones. In terms of striking, the questionable chin of Evans has been covered in detail and will not be discussed again; suffice it to say that Jones has long enough arms to hit Rashad before he can even contemplate a takedown.
Evans' recent T KO victories have come over opponents that did not seek to wrestle and were trying to strike with him. This would probably not be the case when he fights Jones, who has taken down most of his opponents. Even worse for Evans, Jones has an incredible top game and ground and pound via elbows. Evans has nothing off his back to speak of. Evans would, to use Chael Sonnen's comparison, "be on his back like a prostitute with a mortgage. It is possible that, as we saw with GSP vs.
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