The current AMC Fight Nights middleweight champion, Vladimir Mineev, spoke about the experience of communicating with Jon Jones, with whom he had a chance to train in the same gym in 2015.
“He is a fairly correct guy, without quirks, absolutely not suffering from star disease,” Mineev said in an interview with the channel “Ushatayka”. “He has a very unusual, peculiar technique. It is clear that he is not a drummer, but a wrestler, but his blows are not Thai, and not from karate – he has some kind of blows, mma-shny. He knows how to use his body. What impressed me about him is that he feels his body right down to his fingertips.”
“There was even a moment when he stood on the bag, worked with his knee, and twisted in the opposite direction, and I came up and told him, ‘John, I’m sorry, please, I have such a question – what if you don’t twist, but put the position of the body like this to throw the hip further?’ He tried it and says, ‘Yes, really good!’ And it’s like a person who was a UFC champion, and some strange guy comes up to him, gives advice, he listens, and accepts with gratitude. This suggests that, in principle, he is a rather simple and adequate guy.
Recall that on March 4 at UFC 285 in Las Vegas, Jon Jones will return to the octagon after a three-year break and will try to win the vacant UFC heavyweight championship belt in a duel against Cyril Gan.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/30917-vladimir-mineev-rasskazal-kakoj-sovet-dal-dzhonu-dzhonsu.html?rand=19907
