{"id":854225,"date":"2026-09-20T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:28:11","slug":"ufc-331-video-jon-jones-left-stunned-cageside-watching-protege-gable-steveson-knocked-out-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854225\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 331 video: Jon Jones left stunned cageside watching protege Gable Steveson knocked out cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jon Jones had a front-row seat to Gable Steveson getting demolished at UFC 331.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jones and Steveson have formed a tight bond during Steveson\u2019s transition from all-world wrestling champion to top heavyweight prospect, with the former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion taking Steveson under his wing. The retired Jones was in Steveson\u2019s corner for his sophomore octagon outing Saturday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and was left shocked and disappointed along with the rest of Steveson\u2019s team as the Olympic gold medalist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/511208\/ufc-331-results-sean-sharaf-scores-stunning-upset-with-vicious-one-punch-knockout-over-gable-steveson-in-just-12-seconds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out in just 12 seconds<\/a> by Sean Sharaf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch Jones\u2019 emotional reaction below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jones can be seen uttering something unintelligible, but was otherwise left in crestfallen silence as Steveson lost for the first time in his brief career. He then exchanged a look with coach Greg Jackson before Jackson spoke to Jones, who was still visibly stunned by the massive upset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Making matters worse for Steveson, he was lambasted by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/511249\/lost-all-respect-for-that-dude-pros-rip-gable-steveson-for-leaving-ufc-331-cage-early-after-knockout-loss-to-sean-sharaf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fellow fighters on social media<\/a> as cameras followed him leaving the octagon before Sharaf was officially announced as the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones had a front-row seat to Gable Steveson getting demolished at UFC 331. Jones and Steveson have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[829,99,6493,10080],"class_list":["post-854225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}