Sunday, April 28, 2013

Jones stops Sonnen, remains champ

And I have to say: UFC 159 was a strange bird. Whatever the most disgusting, nauseating species of bird is, that's the kind of bird UFC 159 was. Yancy Medeiros had to throw in the towel after a freak thumb dislocation during his fight with Rustam Khabilov.

Yes, it's true that Jon Jones had his hand raised after swarming and engulfing and blitzing his way to a record-tying fifth defense of his light heavyweight championship, stopping Chael Sonnen at 4:33 of the first round in the main event of UFC 159 on

Even though it's not September, the Shining Stars of the UFC roll into the Boogie Wonderland of Newark, New Jersey for UFC 159. Live from Prudential Center, Jon Jones will defend his light heavyweight belt against Chael

It was his fifth consecutive successful title defense, tying Tito Ortiz's record by obliterating Sonnen and putting to rest the foolish notion he was somehow afraid when he declined to fight him on eight days notice at UFC 151. Jones took Sonnen down

Critics said Chael Sonnen didn't belong in the same cage with Jon Jones. That, coming off a loss to Anderson Silva, he didn't deserve a shot at the UFC light heavyweight championship. Oddsmakers, too, were almost unanimous in their opinion that Sonnen

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Jones stops Sonnen, remains champ

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