Who Won Jones Vs Reyes

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Jon Jones retained his title at UFC 247, beating Dominick Reyes by unanimous decision. After the bout, opinions on the outcome were anything but unanimous.

Sat, Feb 8 / 10:00 PM EST Toyota Center, Houston United States. Light Heavyweight Title Bout. Dominick Reyes Round.

Jones retained his light heavyweight belt Saturday night following a surprisingly strong opening by Reyes.

The unanimous decision of 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 was met with scattered applause and loud boos from the crowd, as many felt the challenger had proven enough to take the title.

UFC President Dana White addressed what turned out to be a disputed decision. “The scoring was all over the map,” said White, noting that he thought Reyes had a 3-1 edge entering the final round.

Reyes 2.Jones 3.Reyes 4.Jones 5.Jones 3-2 Johnny Boy. Iloveufc123, Feb 10, 2020.
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“My kids are terrorising me that, ‘The fix is in, how did this happen?’ People had it all over the place, but the reality is … we’re not judges. The judges call the fight, and that’s that. As far as the judging and the reffing tonight, do I think it was perfect? I do not. We need to do some work down here.”

White said the UFC can work with the Texas commission to help improve the quality of judging and officiating.

“I do feel disrespected,” Reyes said. “One of the judges had it 49-46. Who are you? I might want to have a word with you. I know I won that fight.”

UFC commentators Joe Rogan and Dominick Cruz, a former champion, also condemned the judge who delivered the 49-46 score.

“It makes me angry,” Rogan said after the fight.

“We’ve talked about it so many times. It’s less of an issue in some commissions where they’ve dealt with combat sports — particularly MMA — longer, but I can’t argue about this enough. I can’t get angry enough.

“I’ve done it so many times. For anyone to think that was 4-1 Jon Jones; that person’s insane. Insane. Dominick Reyes put on a hell of a fight tonight … that kind of judging is insane.”

“I can’t be mad at this decision because of how close it was,” Cruz added.

“The one thing I will say, though, is that Joe Solis should have his judging card revoked to call that four-to-one. I don’t know what he’s been seeing tonight, but at least his name gets to be put on blast because he’s not doing a very good job in my opinion. But I’m not the judge.”

Joe Solis scored it 49-46 Jones.Source:Supplied

But not everyone agreed. “I know I’m wrong to do what I do because I’m not a trained judge but I will always weight later rounds more heavily than earlier ones,” Conor McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh said. “I ask myself who would survive a no time/rule encounter. Because of that it was a clear Jon Jones victory for me.”

White said he believes Reyes deserves a rematch after Jones faced his most serious challenge in years.

“I wasn’t always confident that I was winning the fight,” Jones said. “I was confident that I wasn’t going to give up or slow down. I think I displayed the difference between a champion and an extraordinary contender. Something special happens when it’s time for the champion to present himself, and you guys saw it tonight in the fifth round.”

Jones (26-1-1) handed the fourth-ranked Reyes (12-1) his first loss, improving to 14-0 in title fights. He became the all-time leader in UFC title defences, breaking the record previously held by Georges St-Pierre.

“I don’t think he was disrespected,” Jones said of Reyes. “I’ve got to watch the fight though. It’s hard to speak with confidence when I haven’t watched the fight.”

Jones was fighting for the first time since last July’s win over Thiago Santos at UFC 239, his longest period between fights in more than five years.

Reyes came out on the attack in the first round, briefly knocking Jones to the ground less than two minutes into the bout. Jones bounced back in the second round, landing several strong hooks to Reyes’ head.

The lively crowd swayed back and forth in support of either fighter, chanting both names at different points.

Both men claim victory after the final round. Picture: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images/AFPSource:AFP

In the third round, Reyes landed blows to Jones’ head, and he drew blood early in the fourth round. Jones finished that round strong and the once-lively crowd became quiet and tense in anticipation of the final round.

Jones ramped up his attack in the final round, but Reyes seemed to keep enough separation from the champ to put it in the judges’ hands.

Reyes, a 30-year-old from Southern California who played college football at Stony Brook, said before the fight that he expected a victory and that it would be “life-changing.”

Instead, he was dealt a controversial loss and said he hopes to get a rematch. “For me, this is huge validation,” Reyes said. “This was my very first time going all five rounds, and it was against Jon Jones, arguably the greatest of all-time. And I put it on him. I mean, I really took it to him. I feel like I’m the peoples’ champ.”

In the co-main event of UFC 247, flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko defended her title against Katlyn Chookagian, stopping the challenger in the third round.

The Kyrgyzstan-native Shevchenko (19-3) won her fifth bout in a row in dominant fashion over Pennsylvania-native Chookagian (13-3), who entered as the top-ranked contender for the belt.

Earlier on the pay-per-view portion of the 12-bout event at the Toyota Center, Houston-native heavyweight Derrick Lewis (23-7) beat Ilir Latifi (15-8) via unanimous decision with a surging rally late.

Another Houston-native, heavyweight Juan Adams, had a much more bitter homecoming, getting stopped in under two minutes by New Zealand-born Australian Justin Tafa, who earned his first UFC win.

HOUSTON – UFC president Dana White thought there would be a new light heavyweight champion when he entered the octagon after the UFC 247 main event.

In the aftermath of Jon Jones’ unanimous decision win over Dominick Reyes on Saturday, debate has raged about who won the fight. Reyes (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) made Jones (26-1 MMA, 20-1 UFC) seem more human than ever before, and a large contingency of the combat sports world thought the belt would change hands.

White admitted he was part of that group. Following UFC 247, the UFC boss said he gave Reyes the first three rounds and the final two to Jones, but the judges saw it differently, all giving the champion the nod for a successful title defense.

“The scoring was all over the map,” White said. “… Going into the last round, I had Dominick Reyes 3-1 going to the last round. My kids are terrorizing me that the fix is in, ‘How could this happen, Dad?, Reyes won that fight,’ and the list goes on and on of people who are reaching out to me. So it’s not like there’s this landslide of people saying it was a robbery or whatever. People have it all over the place.

“But the reality is, who gives a sh*t? We’re not judges. None of us are judges, the judges called the fight, and that’s that.”

Reyes, for his part, was certain he deserved to win.

“I know I won that fight,” Reyes said. “I was in there. I don’t need to watch the replay.”

Jones Vs Reyes Results

UFC 247, which took place at Toyota Center and aired on pay-per-view, marked the second consecutive competitive, and somewhat controversial, fight for Jones. He edged Thiago Santos by split decision at UFC 239 in July, and after that there was a belief the belt should’ve changed hands.