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‘Big’ John McCarthy Breaks Down Why Jon Jones Isn’t a Mount Rushmore MMA Fighter

Former UFC referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy doesn’t think Jon Jones belongs on the Mount Rushmore of MMA.

When discussing the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, names like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Royce Gracie, and Jon Jones inevitably pop up. The reasons for adding a specific fighter to one’s ‘Mount Rushmore’ list can and usually do vary, but it seems like when someone wants to exclude the reigning undisputed UFC heavyweight champion, there’s usually one universal thought behind his exclusion.

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“I look at it different.