5 Most Controversial Moments In UFC
2. Jon Jones Vs. Matt Hamell: 12 To Six
MMA has been a great vehicle for dispelling misconceptions. For instance, that the biggest bark does not equal the biggest bite. But nothing is perfect and some misconceptions have seemed to slip through the cracks. Take, for example, the single loss on the youngest ever UFC champion Jon "Bones" Jones' UFC record.
To this day, Jones is undefeated even with a recorded loss to Matt Hamill. Frankly, no one would argue Jon's dominance in that fight, which he was ahead on the scorecards by 45 strikes to 5.
However, due to an illegal move known as the 12 to 6 elbow, the ref was forced to stop the fight, disqualifying Jones and forever blemishing his record.
The story goes, whilst witnessing martial arts seminars in the good old days, commissions, after seeing demonstrators break objects like wood and bricks with this similar technique, deemed it too lethal for the cage. But the question we ask aloud today is how much more lethal could a vertical elbow from your knees be than the head kick Kevin Lee KO'd Gregor Gillespie with? Or the flying knee Michael Venom Page threw, fracturing the skull of Cyborg within the Bellator cage?
Nevertheless, the rule still stands and so does the greatest LW champ in history’s only loss.