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Un-caged: Making Bones and breaking bones at UFC 140

Last week’s UFC 140 gave us plenty of interesting points to pick over. Brian Kirk has all the latest.

LAST WEEKEND’S UFC 140 event was a belter that provided us with some shock results, some awesome performances and some things you wouldn’t necessarily like to see again.

Jon Jones retained his light heavyweight belt by choking out Lyoto Machida, Frank Mir unceremoniously broke Big Nog’s arm while little brother Antonio Rogerio had more success coming home with all limbs intact and a win over Tito Ortiz to shout about.

Who next for Jones?

Many believed that the thoughtful, highly technical and unorthodox style of Lyoto Machida would pose the biggest threat to Jon Jones’ short reign as light heavyweight champ.

Machida arguably won an exciting first round, catching Jones flush more times than we had seen previously in his whole career.

That proved to be as much as Machida had to offer as Jones stepped it up in the second by taking “The Dragon” down and splitting his forehead with a razor sharp elbow.

The doctor gave the OK to continue after a quick inspection but it was clear that the Brazilian still wasn’t right as Jones dropped him once again. That was the beginning of the end for Machida who staggered back to his feet only for the champion to grab a hold of his neck and choke him out with an impressive standing guillotine.

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The UFC is quickly running out of people to throw in against Jones. Many people are calling for an Anderson Silva-Jones bout but personally I can’t see that happening until the remaining contenders at light heavyweight get their shot.

Phil Davis, with his elite wrestling, could be the only one to actually grab hold of “Bones” but I doubt he could avoid taking strong shots and I think Jones more than has his measure.

One-time team-mate Rashad Evans could pose a different type of threat as he knows how Jones trains and would have a better idea than anyone else of the champion’s weakness and holes in his game. If he can stay fully fit, I think he has the best chance to dethrone Jones.

Mixed bag for the Nogueira brothers

There was no doubt who went home the happiest out of the Nogueira brothers last weekend as Little Nog KO’d Tito Ortiz in the first round while Big Nog had his arm broken by Frank Mir in his fight.

Big Nog had started well in his re-match with Frank Mir and dropped him in the first before swarming on top of him as he looked to finish the fight.

But the Brazilian uncharacteristically left an arm out for Mir to attempt a Kimura and despite rolling a couple of times in a bid to free himself, Mir clung on tight and locked in a Kimura that snapped Nogueira’s arm before he had a chance to tap.

His younger twin produced an impressive display over Tito Ortiz as a brutal body attack left “The People’s Champ” unable to continue. Ortiz is fast approaching his fifteenth anniversary in the sport and afterwards, the veteran revealed that he hopes to fight once more in the UFC before he considers his retirement.

Zombie

The was nothing zombie-like about Chan Sung Jung’s performance against Mark Hominick as he took just seven seconds to KO the Canadian.

The two touched gloves before Hominick swung and missed wildly leaving his chin wide open for “The Korean Zombie” to catch him flush and finish him quickly, leaving the Toronto natives in the crowd in shock.

Elsewhere Brian Ebersole defeated Claude Patrick in a close split decision fight that pushed his win streak to ten.

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