Jon Jones vs Matt Hamill is one of the main card in TUF 10 Finale this December 5, 2009. The two faces each other aiming to be notice in their chosen weight division. Jon Jones is the crowd favorite because of his fighting skills and takedown offense that nobody can easily do inside the octagon. While Matt Hamill is on his way to his 3rd straight win in the octagon.
The match starts quickly in a striking game that this two MMA fighter decided to compete with Steve Mazzagatti as a referee. Matt Hamill is throwing straights and doing leg kicks to back up Jon Jones but Jon was never intimidated by Matt’s presence. Matt Hamill circling Jon Jones to avoid direct attacks from Jon. As this match goes on Jon Jones throws his traditional jab and fake to follow his devastating spinning back elbow but it miss Matt Hamill.
In the ending minute of the match, Jones strike a leg kick and Matt quickly grabs and clinch Jones. Considered as one of the best takedown fighter, Jon Jones quickly trip Matt into the ground and easily positioned in full mount. Jon Jones unleashes flurry of punches and elbow while Matt Hamill depends his head from those attacks. Hard to say but Matt Hamill is hurt and Steve Mazzagatti watching the fight carefully and Matt Hamill seems to be successful defending from Jon Jones relentlessness.
As the match goes on it seems Hamill is in good shape and Jon Jones starts to throw short elbow. If you will see the video, Joe Rogan notice some “elbow strikes” that Jones thrown was illegal and he called it “12 to 6 o’clock elbow strike”. Joe Rogan added that the kind of ” elbow strike ” that Jon Jones thrown was not in the ruling because of it’s destruction will cause to the fighter. In a moment after Joe Rogan said that, Steve Mazzagatti stop the fight and acknowledged the illegal strike caused by Jones.
Jon Jones is happy knowing that he won the fight even though he may be deducted because of that illegal blow. But he was shocked after hearing the announcement of Bruce Buffer that he was disqualified because of those illegal blows. he thought the judges will just deduct points on his scores.
In the interview Jones said,
“I’ve heard that so many times, when you lose, you come back a better, stronger person, Everything happens for a reason.”
Because of this decision, MMAjunkie posted some reason why Jon Jones was disqualified on his match against Matt Hamill.
Here’s what Keith Kizer told MMAjunkie :
“After halting the bout, Mazzagatti asked for the replay to determine whether the illegal blows contributed to the ending of the fight. When replays showed that the elbows scored directly to the eye, the disqualification result was issued. Because the illegal blows landed as part of the sequence that ended the fight, the ruling was made.”
Watch the full fight video replay below between Matt Hamill and Jon Jones, a good fight but the decision turn the tide around.
Check Hamill vs Jones Video Here
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Mazanazi is a terrible ref and should not be allowed near the sport.
I watched the video to thanks to TIVO. The fight was not stopped because of the elbow, Matt was more worried about his dislocated arm than the cut above his nose. The gash had been open an bleeding before the 2 elbows that didnt even connect. This was bull crap because in the next fight James threw 3 of those illegal elbows and the fight resumed.