Hours before the biggest fight of his life, Jones subdues a robber

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http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Hours-before-biggest-fight-of-his-life-Jones-an;_ylt=Ajjd6Vt2aG5oDLNiZ5SFkUE9Eo14?urn=mma-wp309

By Steve Cofield

Eat your heart out Bob Reilly. Mixed martial arts is a lot more than a money grab viewed by savage fans; it can be a real life saver. Saturday afternoon in the streets of Paterson, N.J., Jon Jones and his trainers applied their gym techniques when they spotted a robber, chased him down and subdued him.

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Jones, who was scheduled to fight Saturday evening in Newark for the UFC light heavyweight title, was on his way to meditate in front of a waterfall in Northern New Jersey. Jones, along with Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn, spotted the suspect breaking into a car and stealing some objects. According to the account given to Yahoo!'s Kevin Iole by Jackson, the group shouted at the robber and he took off.

Jones, Jackson and Winkeljohn pursued him on foot. The robber eventually fell and Jones, the youngest of the group at 23, caught up to the robber and tripped him to the ground again. Jackson said that Jones "foot swept" the suspect.

With the robber on the ground, Jackson began yelling to his fighter to stay away. Once the trainers caught up to robber, he tried to get up. Jackson said he "double-legged" him and jumped on top applying an arm bar. Winkeljohn went for the other arm to make sure he didn't have a weapon. In the scuffle, the robber was bloodied. The trainers said some blood got on their pants. Shortly afterward, the police arrived to arrest the suspect.

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Story has been getting a lot of play in fighting media, so I figured I would bring it here.

By the way, "Bones" Jones went on to win the light heavyweight title later that night (He is also one of the fastest rising stars in MMA right now and happens to be an Upstate NYer. His next fight will be against a Western NYer, so lots of publicity for this region all around. Now if only NY would legalize MMA...)

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1. I am bumping this because I have no clue if it actually shows up on the forums or not

OP is not in "My DU", got an error while posting, etc. Just making sure it actually worked the first time and people can see it.