Did Jon Jones' fighting career contradict his religious views? #UFC #MMA

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#JonJones #danielcormier #stipemiocic --- This is an excerpt from Lionel Rivera's documentary on Jon Jones, one of the most dominant UFC champions of all time. After a quick rise in the UFC's light heavyweight rankings with wins over Andrew Gusmao, Stephan Bonnar, and Jake O'Brien, Jon Jones suffered a DQ loss by throwing 12 to 6 elbows to Matt Hamill. Jones however quickly bounced back from this by finishing Brandon Vera, Vladimir Matyushenko and Ryan Bader to earn a title shot to Mauricio Shogun Rua where Jon Jones finished Shogun to become the youngest ever UFC champion at 23 years old. Jon Jones then defended his title several times over names like Quinton rampage jackson, chael sonnen, lyoto machida, rashad evans, vitor belfort, Alexander Gustafsson, Glover Teixeira, and Daniel Cormier. Jones' most notable rivalry would be against Daniel Cormier amounting to 2 fights at UFC 182 and UFC 214 where Jones was stripped after both fights. Jones was stripped of his UFC lightheavyweight title the first time due to violating the UFC's code of conduct after a felony hit and run incident as well as testing positive for Cocaine. The second time Jones lost his title it was because he tested positive for estrogen blockers ahead of UFC 200. Then Jones lost his lightheavyweight title after knocking out Cormier at UFC 214 due to popping for steroids called Turinabol. Jones recaptured his lightheavyweigh title by finishing Alexander Gustafsson and defending his title 3 times with performances against Anthony Smith, Thiago Santos and Dominick Reyes, the latter of which many thought Jon Jones lost. Jones then vacated his championship to move up to heavyweight and submit Ciryl Gane to become the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion. He then defended his title against Stipe Miocic. Overall, Jon Jones' championship legacy in the UFC is one of controversy and dominance.