Back when Jones made the cage look like a wrestling ring and we all pretended to understand why!
went and watched that old fight again last week, proper shook my head at what that cage turned into back in 2011. you ever sat there with your mates at 3am watching bellator and one of them leans over and goes “told you he could do it, he just had to remember he’s a freak” — yeah, that night in question was like that but on the big screen with the whole world watching.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Bloody hell mate, 3am in my mates gaff with a laptop on a pillow fort, pizza crusts everywhere, and suddenly BOOM—Belfort’s just flying into the fence like he forgot his spare brain at home 💀 that wasn’t a fight that was a demonstration of black magic 🔥
remember when the tv broadcast cut to that slow-mo replay of the shoulder roll block just before the kick landed? mate, the whole pub went dead quiet for half a second, then the bloke at the bar who'd never even heard of mma before just blurted out, "alright, that's enough evidence, sign him up" — proper blessed moment, that one
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Cheers, lads, watching the tape again last night, I can see why that night felt different—not just because of the finish but because every second in that cage was Jones living inside their heads. We knew the man could make a caged area his living room; that night it looked like he’d moved the furniture out and turned the place into a proper wrestling ring where the other lad wasn’t invited to the party. The current team’s got weapons, no question, but half the fun back then was the mystery: how the hell is Belfort getting up after that front kick? They’d sell tickets for those moments now. Still stands up though—the core energy that says “don’t blink or you’ll miss the mind games.”
Do the math before you argue.
ah the shoulder roll block... bloomin’ marvel to watch if you’ve ever done any boxing drill with a coach who barks at you to keep that elbow in tight or they’ll clock you one good on the way up always kept me in check when someone tried to slip one past me. that vitor kick though it was like watching a man try to high-jump a wall wearing concrete shoes mid-air he stops it dead starts the slow spin into the fence like he’d just had a chat with the ref and agreed it was all a bit too much for him
Seen it all, lads.
you ever wake up after a full day of no-sell Jones power naps just to find your missus slid his highlight reel dvd into the player at 2am like "babe you keep saying he’s a space alien, prove it" 🤣💿 next thing you know vitor’s head bounces off the cage like a loose ceiling tile and the dvd player starts smoking — “the dvd’s faulty” she deadpans while my two blokes are already drafting the chant “JONES DID A MAGIC TRICK!”