The elbows swung wildly, left-to-right, then right-to-left, the big bones of the man on top colliding violently with the smaller bones of the man below. But while Jon Jones had dominated this fight against Matt Hamill, he would be declared the loser by disqualification.
All those devastatingly effective elbows that opened up Hamill’s face, turning it into something akin to a fire hydrant squirting red? They were illegal. The UFC might not have a thick rule book, but at the time, anyway, there was a rule against “12–6 elbows,” and Jones had broken it, much as he had broken Hamill’s face.
