Jon Jones runs through Ciryl Gane for heavyweight championship (Video)

He is again, he is the heavyweight champion, and it could simply now be solidified that Jon Jones is the GOAT after submitting Ciryl Gane at UFC 285.

After three years away from the Octagon, Jones is a UFC champion as soon as once more — and he is prolonged his legacy within the course of. Some thought that his struggle on Saturday with Ciryl Gane would go the gap and maybe have to be selected factors. There was additionally a contingency who thought that Jones was in peril of probably of dropping the struggle and can be formally rendered irrelevant in UFC playing cards of the longer term.

None of that got here to cross, and Jones had extra than simply his opponent in a submission maintain on Saturday night time.

Jones submitted Ciryl Gane in about two minutes to turn out to be the UFC heavyweight champion. To the chagrin of some and pleasure of others, he is not going anyplace anytime quickly.

After an unlucky kick to Jones’s groin within the struggle’s first moments, the 2 felt one another out earlier than Jones scored a takedown a minute into the struggle.

Jones was capable of transition his physique right into a guillotine try on a seated-up Gane, the place he scored the submission.

Jones now joins just a handful of fighters to win UFC gold in two weight classes — and particularly becoming a member of Randy Couture and former archnemesis Daniel Cormier as the one ones to win titles at mild heavyweight and heavyweight.