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Jon Jones left no doubt on Saturday night.
In the main event of UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, “Bones” demolished former champ Stipe Miocic, defending the heavyweight title he won last year in similarly emphatic fashion. The longtime light heavyweight champ allowed no drama to enter the proceedings, as he grounded Miocic in the first round and subjected him to a brutal salvo of elbow strikes that could have finished the fight right then and there. Miocic weathered that storm, but the shellacking continued, with Jones winning every moment of the fight right up to the spinning back kick to the body that closed things out in Round 3.