From the beginning of the fight until the end, he grabbed collar ties, clamped overhooks and kept Teixeira at bay with posts to the head (a hand fighting technique which is a staple in the arsenal of Jordan Burroughs, currently the world's best wrestler). In his UFC 172 title fight with Glover Teixeira, Jones hand fought with his opponent constantly. Wrestlers hand fight with the end goal of creating defensive openings wide enough to permit a successful takedown attempt. While hand fighting, wrestlers pummel for under hooks, club each other's' heads, yank collar ties, feint and circle. Some of the country's most successful wrestling programs place such importance on hand fighting that substantial portions of practice consist only of hand fighting and nothing else. Wrestlers cannot rise to the elite levels of the sport without intense expertise in hand fighting. (Above you see a hand fighting drill during practice at Clovis West High School, an excellent program located in the wrestling hot bed of Bakersfield, California) This is hand fighting, and it might seem artless and dull to the uninitiated, but it actually features an entire universe of skill and strategy. When people unfamiliar with the sport first watch a wrestling match, they often remark on how little happens at first other than two guys grabbing and tugging on each other. Hand fighting is the general term used to describe the process by which to wrestlers jockey for position from the standing position(hand fighting actually takes place in mat wrestling as well, but here we are only concerned with hand fighting on the feet). In the case of hand fighting, Jones has transformed a skill only useful in grappling exchanges into a means to seriously batter an opponent with strikes. These wrestling-based strike setups emerge from the employment of two distinct wrestling skills: hand fighting and leg attacks. The young champion now stands front and center in a pioneering movement which utilizes wrestling to set up devastating strikes from the standing position. Jones enjoys the classical benefits of a wrestling background, but has found a new and unforeseen use for his wrestling skills. Judo Chop: Jon Jones' Eye Poke Judo Chop: Jon Jones' In Fighting
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