December 2, 2009, at 2:00 pm
Come on. Everyone has to be impressed with how little Jon Jones Man-Love I’ve presented since UFC 100. I’ve purposely stayed off his jock this time just to prove that I can, but now, just a few days before his fight, I am in full on clinging to his leg, hype mode.
Jones, the ultra-athletic, super exciting prospect from Endicott, New York will take on Matt “The Hammer” Hamill on Saturday, and it will mark Jones’ coming out party to the main stream audience.
The gameplan, which will be provided by fight strategy master and Jones’ new trainer Greg Jackson, should be to stand and strike with Hamill, an incredibly decorated wrestler. However, Jones doesn’t think that going to the ground with The Hammer is a death sentence. From Bloody Elbow:
Matt had a great collegiate career, but it was so long ago. If you were a great wrestler, unless you’re all about wrestling every day, and still training at that level, you lose a lot of it. And for people to say that Matt’s just gonna take me down, hold me down, ground and pound me and beat me that way, it’s just ridiculous. I can’t wait to show the people that I’m a fresh wrestler out of college. Matt’s college career was like ten years ago. This time last year I was warming up for tournaments. I’m a wrestling coach now at Ithaca College, I wrestle at Cornell University all summer long, so I think it’s funny that people are giving him that huge gap in the wrestling department, and I can’t wait to make Matt prove that he’s a better wrestler than me.”
… “I’m gonna continue to be a grinder and continue to work hard, improve, and keep my head on straight. I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.”
Uhhh…I have chills. Anyway, while I don’t have any doubt that Jon Jones could leap tall buildings if he wanted to, I don’t want to see him on the ground with Hamill. Instead, he should be standing and moving against a much slower opponent.
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