Saturday’s UFC 285 will bring the first promotional PPV event of 2023 to U.S. soil with a fun main card and a poster solely focused on a single matchup: Jon Jones vs. Ciryl Gane. Jones, the arguable MMA GOAT, has completed his transition up to the heavyweight division and will throw down against former-interim champion Gane for the now-undisputed heavyweight strap since Francis Ngannou exercised his contractual right to take his talents… somewhere yet to be determined.
While Jones had a long string of statistically-dominant light heavyweight performances from the days of Matt Hamill in 2009 to Glover Teixeira in 2014 (Lyoto Machida and Alexander Gustafsson were the only two opponents in that range where Jones had less than 86% dominance), he won his two most recent outings via decision with an extremely low 38% dominance measure against Thiago Santos and an even smaller 34% showing in his most recent fight versus Dominick Reyes, adding to the intrigue of Saturday night.