{"id":111240,"date":"2025-09-01T05:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:46:15","slug":"craig-jones-puts-chael-sonnen-to-sleep-twice-in-cji-2-superfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111240\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Jones puts Chael Sonnen to sleep twice in CJI 2 superfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chael Sonnen stepped in as a late replacement for Gable Steveson at Sunday night\u2019s Craig Jones Invitational 2 in Las Vegas and did his best to survive against Craig Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a match scheduled for three five-minute rounds, Sonnen managed to get tapped twice with the same move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A former UFC middleweight and light heavyweight title challenger, Sonnen immediately took Jones to the ground to find himself locked in a buggy choke. The choke was tight, and Sonnen apparently went to sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sonnen regained his senses, and both athletes agreed to go at it again. Sonnen took Jones down again, going for a leg lock with no real danger to a grappler of Jones\u2019 caliber. The CJI founder against attacked with the buggy choke, again having Sonnen go lights out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McCarthy couldn\u2019t help but laugh as Sonnen tried to make it best three out of five \u2014 and the crowd chanted to get the two go at it again \u2014, but the referee called the end of the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The official result was read as Jones being victorious via double buggy choke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch the second finish below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen stepped in as a late replacement for Gable Steveson at Sunday night\u2019s Craig Jones Invitational 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-111240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}