” I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the match countless times. It was a milestone in my career, ” says Alexander ”The System” Gustafsson when he thinks back on the fight from september 2013.
– Even though I lost, I got so much out of it, and it is something I will always remember. It was an incredibly good and fun experience on all the ways that most people do not get to experience.
the first meeting has more than five years old, but the count this day as one of the best UFC fights of all time. The reigning champion Jones retain his belt via unanimous decision, but the loss was also a boost for Alexander Gustafsson. The reason for this? ”The System” had done something no one has succeeded with in the past: got Jon Jones, considered by many as the sport’s greatest ever, start to bleed, and brought him down on the mat.
He had never been defeated and had won every round as he passed. He is a talent and a phenomenon in the sport and incredibly talented in every way. It is easy to people see him as invincible, a monster and not a man. But I got him to see the human, and this match he will see even more human, ” says Alexander Gustafsson.
Ever since the loss has ”The System” along with a full UFC-world dreamed of a rematch, and on 29 december the wait is over. For MMA star Jon Jones, 31, will be titelfajten in Las Vegas even a comeback.
his compatriot Daniel Cormier in July of last summer was tested star positive for steroids, got rid of the belt and shut down for a year. It was not the first time Jones ended up in the rough times.
three years ago, went to 31-year-old busted for cocaine in a despite the pain and later the same year was deprived of he the mästartitel he had since 2011 after having been involved in a hit and run accident. But once inside the octagon the MMA star never lost his belt.
– It is difficult to plan too much around this guy because he is so talented and creative, so there has been much focus on myself and my own training before the match, – says Alexander Gustafsson.
” It will be a chess game with two of the best athletes in the world meet. No one is going to give in, but the difference is that I will not release this to the judges, but I will knock him out in the fourth round.
it has happened a lot in five years. Despite a bunch of injuries that eluded and put a stop to matches he is according to himself a both more mature and better fajter than ever with a more mature technology, but also with a different view of the sport.
He is aware that there are extremely few who get three chances to take a mästarbälte, but as a newly minted father of two he admits that his future career in MMA to a large extent on his family’s behalf.
– As a human being I am in a different seat, it takes things in a different way and is more serious and more effective. I compete and have the opportunity to become the best in the world, and if you have the possibility to safeguard the future of their children. It goes a bit hand in hand, have a heavy workout, so it is big motivation in life when one has his family and his children.
