{"id":463325,"date":"2026-02-07T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:29:08","slug":"craig-jones-vs-dillon-danis-planned-for-cji-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463325\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Jones vs. Dillon Danis planned for CJI 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Craig Jones is back at it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday, Jones announced that the headlining match of Craig Jones Invitational 3 will be himself vs. combat sports lightning rod Dillon Danis at a date and location to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of the biggest names in global grappling, Jones has split his time over the past few years between working with some of the biggest MMA names in the world, and promoting his submission grappling tournament, the CJI. The event was first held in 2024, with CJI 2 following last year; now, Jones is working on CJI 3 with a main event already planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">See the announcement below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The main event of CJI 3, for the title of Greatest Grappler in the World:<br \/>Pound-for-pound MMA and jiu-jitsu champion Dillon Danis vs. jiu-jitsu\u2019s number two ranked, Craig Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">More details coming soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Previously considered to be one of the best grapplers in the world, Danis has bounced around between other combat sports over the past few years, most recently winning the inaugural Misfits MMA light heavyweight championship in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones, meanwhile, has headlined both previous CJI events, facing Gabi Garcia in a superfight at CJI 1, and then taking on short-notice replacement Chael Sonnen at CJI 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Jones is back at it again. On Friday, Jones announced that the headlining match of Craig Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-463325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}