{"id":421888,"date":"2026-01-20T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:02:09","slug":"watch-gable-steveson-wrestle-jon-jones-ahead-of-third-mma-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421888\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gable Steveson wrestle Jon Jones ahead of third MMA bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gable Steveson is preparing for his third mixed martial arts bout, and he\u2019s doing so with one of the greatest fighters of all-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steveson, who is 2-0 with two quick knockout wins \u2014 along with a knockout win for Dirty Boxing \u2014 is set to face 14-fight veteran Hugo Lezama at MFL 3 in Mexico on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ahead of the matchup, Steveson put out a slideshow on his Instagram, including a wrestling match of sorts with former two-division UFC champ Jon Jones, who also coaches Steveson. Check out their quick tilt on the mats, and other training photos and videos below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his long-awaited MMA debut, Steveson picked up a 98-second TKO victory over Braden Peterson at LFA 217 this past September. A little over a month later, the Olympic gold medalist destroyed former Bellator fighter Billy Swanson in just 15 seconds in his Dirty Boxing debut in the main event of DBX 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steveson\u2019s sophomore MMA bout took place in November for Anthony Pettis\u2019 APFC promotion, where he delivered a brutal knockout of Kevin Hein with a nasty left hook in just 24 seconds at APFC 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC has had their eye on Steveson, who will likely make his promotional debut sometime in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson is preparing for his third mixed martial arts bout, and he\u2019s doing so with one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-421888","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","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421888","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=421888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}