The first part of this series examined Jones’s early career, wrestling-heavy, approach and started to touch on how his length affected the development of his style. This second portion will delve deep into how Jones built a game around his characteristic reach advantage, and assumption of clinch superiority. As well as looking at the creativity of his kicking game and ability to use all these things to suffocate his opponents’ offense.
Creative Violence
There are many words that could reasonably be used to describe Jon Jones’ striking: ‘dangerous,’ ‘disjointed,’ ‘unconventional,’ or ‘creative’ all come quickly to mind.