Originally Posted by illphillip
I give Rashad credit. He probably put Jones in more danger than any other fighter. Stunned him with the head kick.
Game plan was not bad. Threw some good leg kicks and some good combos.
But he played Jones game too much with all that hand grabbing.
When Jones had his arms extended like that, I expected him to try to go underneath and box from the inside. Mike Tyson style. Get in on the bigger fighter, negate his range.
He just wasn't going to win being on the outside.
Once you get your clock cleaned like that, you go into survival mode. It happens to the best fighters in the world sometimes. And I'm sure there was a bit of Rashad that REFUSED to get KOd by Jones.
Funny thing is, I think there was also a part of Jones that didn't want to KO Rashad.