Jon Jones cut through Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 like a hot knife through butter, submitting France’s biggest heavyweight against the fence with a guillotine just two minutes into their fight. It was an impressive performance, and it looks like he has Henry Cejudo to thank for the setup that led to the quick finish (which you can watch here).
A new video shared by Cejudo of Jon Jones’ last practice on Feb. 23 shows “Triple C” helping “Bones” with his grappling. Cejudo puts a student against the wall and recreates a position where he has the student’s back and tries to drag him to the floor.
“What you don’t want to do, because he’s bigger, you don’t want to overload a position,” Cejudo said. “It’s here that [Volkanovski] was starting to get in trouble because it was a lot of strength. If you’re going to lose the job or whatever, imagine having Gane here? Change position, move on to something bigger.
In the video, Cejudo lets go of his student’s back and instead switches to a forward grip.
“Like, know that when you’ve lost a position, the last thing you want to do, Jon, is blast the watts in your hands and wrists,” Cejudo continued. “You could be in this position here. Don’t fight too hard, especially if you know he’s going to come out. If you know he’s gonna come out, bang, you front cover.
That’s exactly what Jones did 30 seconds before stopping his opponent. He took Gane’s back against the fence, then moved to front cover, driving “Bon Gamin” to the canvas. Shortly after, he was above Gane’s knees and locking the guillotine choke.
“Call me Mystic Triple C cause I predict gross stuff!!!” Cejudo wrote above the video.
Jones spent several weeks training with Henry Cejudo at Fight Ready MMA in Arizona. Although we didn’t get to see too much because Jonny replaced his opponent so quickly, what we saw of his wrestling looked pretty damn close. In previous videos, Cejudo had praised Jones as a student and his ability to train.
“Jones is a student of the game,” Cejudo said in January when the UFC announced Jones’ heavyweight title fight. “You can teach him one thing, he comes back the next day and he becomes almost faultless. It’s crazy to see, again, the potential for greatness and quality in Jones. »
“He’s a man who has God-given ability, and when you teach a guy who has ability, technique who has discipline like him and is willing to learn? I mean that is what amounts to straight goat status. This is what puts Jon Jones in a category of his own.
Although nothing is official, UFC President Dana White has said Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic is next for the heavyweight division. It will be interesting to see how Jones fares against a much more accomplished wrestler like Miocic, and if Henry Cejudo can once again provide some tweaks that are proving extremely effective in their fight.
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