{"id":428395,"date":"2023-03-05T04:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T09:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428395"},"modified":"2023-03-05T03:38:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T08:38:46","slug":"jones-claim-ufc-heavyweight-crown-over-gane","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jones-claim-ufc-heavyweight-crown-over-gane\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones claim UFC heavyweight crown over Gane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Jones scored a sensational first-round submission win over top-ranked Ciryl Gane to claim the vacant UFC heavyweight title at UFC 285 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Former light heavyweight champion Jones, who came back on the for the first time since 2020, moved up a division for his heavyweight debut against Gane and needed less than three minutes to become the eighth fighter in UFC history to win titles in two divisions.<\/p>\n<p>American Jones, 35, scored a takedown a minute into the opening round and snatched a guillotine choke that trapped Gane against the cage. The Frenchman didn&#8217;t have a chance and tapped out at the 2:04 mark.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jon Jones became the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He became the UFC Heavyweight Champion in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>How many fighters in MMA can win 2 different Championships 12 years apart?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what makes Jon Jones special. He&#8217;s one of a kind. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZDxkwrFQDk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZDxkwrFQDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MMA History Today (@MMAHistoryToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAHistoryToday\/status\/1632270291748503553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jones won the belt relinquished by Francis Ngannou, who exited the UFC as a free agent in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Jones scored a sensational first-round submission win over top-ranked Ciryl Gane to claim the vacant UFC heavyweight title at UFC 285 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428396,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17494],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[17957,17956],"acf":{"announce":"First-round submission decided everything at UFC 285","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428395"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428395"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}