When UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones ’ original UFC 151 opponent, Dan Henderson , injured his knee and was forced out of the fight, Chael Sonnen offered to step in, but Jones declined. The event was eventually cancelled, but Sonnen got his fight with Jones anyway after coaching opposite the youngest champion in UFC history on the seventeenth season of The Ultimate Fighter . The two met in the main event of UFC 159 on April 27 and Jones defended his title by finishing Sonnen with punches and elbows on the ground late in the opening round, but Sonnen believes the fight was stopped early. “I do think it was stopped too early. I was surprised when they stopped the fight,” said Sonnen during a question and answer session during the UFC Fan Expo leading up to UFC 162: Silva vs.
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Chael Sonnen Says His UFC 159 Fight with Jon Jones Was Stopped Early – MMA Weekly