Counting down to the best MMA fighter of all time

#6 Jon Jones (2008 to present)

Jon Jones: Only loss was via disqualification

Controversy follows Jon Jones everywhere he goes.

Jones has missed a ton of time from the Octagon owing to suspensions from drug use and an unpleasant hit and run incident he was responsible for back in April 2015.

Jones's solitary loss as an MMA fighter was also shrowded in controversy, given that he was disqualified in his defeat to Matt Hamill in December 2009. Despite dominating the fight, Jones lost when he continually dropped downward elbows on the fallen Hamill. He was initially docked a point, but when the strikes were seen to have dislocated Hamill's shoulder, he lost the fight due to disqualification.

Jones defeated Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to win the Light-Heavyweight Championship at UFC 128, then defended that title successfully eight times over the next five years. In that run, he downed Quinton Jackson, Lyota Machida, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort, Chael Sonnen, Alexander Gustafsson, Glover Teixeira and Daniel Cormier.

That is a Hall of Fame career right there. After Jones was stripped of the belt due to a failed drugs test, he returned 15 months later to win the Interim Light-Heavyweight title opposite Ovince Saint Preux. Chaotically, Jones was his own worst enemy once more, as he was stripped yet again for testing positive for a banned substance.

He finally returned at UFC 214 wherein he bested Cormier for a second time but inexplicably found himself suspended again due to another failed drugs test. His Light-Heavyweight title win was cancelled and the result changed to a No Contest.

After over a year on the shelf, Jones finally returned at UFC 232 in December 2018 and won convincingly versus Gustafsson to claim the Light-Heavyweight crown vacated by Cormier once again.

Despite his controversies, which will always mar his achievements, Jones is a supremely talented striker and wrestler and will always be remembered as one of the finest martial artists in history.