{"id":422285,"date":"2026-01-20T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:14:08","slug":"video-jon-jones-stuns-gable-steveson-with-trip-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422285\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jon Jones stuns Gable Steveson with trip takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jon Jones is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/391360\/coach-jon-jones-promises-championship-gold-for-gable-steveson-i-found-my-guy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coaching Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson<\/a> as the two-time NCAA Division I Heavyweight Champion prepares for his career in mixed martial arts (MMA), with a transition to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/413581\/pump-the-brakes-dana-white-needs-gable-steveson-inside-the-octagon-before-crowing-him-the-next-best-thing-well-find-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly a foregone conclusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Assuming he doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/5\/9\/24152743\/olympic-gold-medalist-gable-steveson-released-wwe-now-training-mma-ufc-star-robbie-lawler-nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get bored and start mailing it in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/389168\/video-jon-jones-celebrates-gable-stevesons-dominant-mma-debut-offers-heaps-of-praise-he-has-the-perfect-formula\" class=\"dy489h9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jones: Gable Steveson \u2018Has The Perfect Formula\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBones\u201d can be seen wrestling with Steveson in the embedded video above, which comes directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTtycBlDHh-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steveson\u2019s Instagram page<\/a>. To his credit, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/21\/24453500\/retired-jon-jones-issues-statement-after-shocking-ufc-announcement-new-opportunities-challenges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former UFC heavyweight champion<\/a> landed a trip takedown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/5\/31\/24168957\/nfl-fans-divided-wwe-castaway-gable-steveson-passes-ufc-signs-buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the one-time NFL hopeful<\/a>, not that it did him any favors since Steveson ended up on top anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Have a look:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones became the first fighter to out-wrestle Daniel Cormier in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2015\/1\/4\/7483549\/ufc-182-results-recap-jon-jones-vs-daniel-cormier-fight-review-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their UFC 182 title fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking of Cormier, \u201cDC\u201d remains an outspoken critic of the pairing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/414849\/no-bones-about-it-daniel-cormier-doesnt-like-jon-jones-coaching-gable-steveson-claims-ufc-legend-could-slow-him-down\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming Jones could \u201cslow him down.\u201d<\/a> In addition, retired UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/413295\/ufc-hopeful-gable-steveson-ditch-wild-boy-jon-jones-thats-not-guy-you-want-listen-to\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a \u201cwild boy\u201d like Jones would be a bad influence<\/a> on the 25 year-old wrestling phenom (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2017\/5\/12\/15634180\/jon-jones-says-he-beat-daniel-cormier-after-a-weekend-of-cocaine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t imagine why<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis weekend improvements were made,\u201c Jones wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Related<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/8\/24265266\/accident-jon-jones-stuns-gable-steveson-with-jumping-knee-during-ufc-309-training-camp-video-mma\" class=\"dy489h9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instinct?! Jon Jones stuns Gable Steveson with \u2018insane\u2019 flying knee during UFC 309 training camp | Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steveson (2-0) returns against MexiCAN heavyweight Hugo \u201cPandemonium\u201d Lezama (11-3) for Mexico Fight League on Feb. 19 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\" class=\"_153sp3o9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest UFC\/MMA News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\" class=\"_153sp3o9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-videos\" class=\"_153sp3o9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Videos<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones is coaching Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson as the two-time NCAA Division I Heavyweight Champion prepares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,9468],"class_list":["post-422285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422285","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=422285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}