UFC Wastes No Time Pitting Jones Against Evans, With Good Reason

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NEWARK, N.J. - Call it the championship life cycle: one legend is barely out of his post-knockout haze, his facial tissue still in mid-swell, when the new champ is already confronting his next challenger on a canvas where the blood hasn't even dried yet.

It wasn't an unfamiliar encounter when former training partners Jon Jones and Rashad Evans shook hands in the middle of the Octagon before agreeing to beat each other up at some point in the near future. It also wasn't exactly an enthusiastic agreement on either man's part, though it was a decisive one.

Jones didn't just beat Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to claim the UFC light heavyweight title at UFC 128 - he utterly demolished him. In a little less than three full rounds of combat, there wasn't a second where it wasn't Jones' fight. Aside from possibly hurting his elbow on Rua's skull, Jones had almost nothing to worry about in the biggest fight of his career.

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/20/ufc-wastes-no-time-pitting-jones-against-evans-with-good-reason/

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