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Vladimir Mineev told what advice he gave to John Jones

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.

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