#4 Ballad Of Jones and Evans
Cast your psyche back to 2008 for a second. That late spring the UFC marked an obscure adolescent called Jon Jones to venture in as a late substitution in a prelim battle, while previous TUF champion Rashad Evans got the greatest success of his profession to date by thumping out UFC legend Chuck Liddell.
Quick forward to 2010 and the two men were colleagues. Jones had been gotten tied up with Greg Jackson’s camp after the mentor detected the potential he had, and Evans – Jackson’s star student and the now-previous UFC Light-Heavyweight champion – was just glad to encourage the youth.
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When 2011 started obviously Jones was maybe the best prospect in the load class, while Evans was planned to battle champion Mauricio Rua trying to recover his lost title. Be that as it may, Rashad blew his knee out preceding UFC 128, so Jones was offered the title shot.
With Rashad’s favoring, he took the risk and along these lines annihilated Rua to take the title for himself. When he was gotten some information about Rashad, Jones told the MMA media that he had to be upbeat to battle his preparation accomplice on the off chance that he were inquired.
Abruptly, it appeared as though the world was against Evans – well, the universe of Jackson’s MMA that is. Regardless of having status over the new victor, Rashad wound up segregated by his own group and mentors, and when unmistakably he was on a crash course with Jones, he was quickly constrained out of the Albuquerque-based group and needed to frame his own camp in Boca Raton. At the point when the battle in the end occurred, Jones crushed Evans in a disproportionate judges’ choice.
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A long time later Rashad commented that he wished things had gone down contrastingly and that he’d to a great extent let bygones be bygones with Jones and Jackson, in spite of the fact that “things would never truly be the same”. Is anyone surprised given he fell off on the wrong end of one of the UFC’s most prominent treacheries?
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