“Imagine Gane just punts him” – MMA fans revisit Rampage Jackson’s hilarious reaction to watching Jon Jones crawl towards him during fight
Ava Hudson
Updated on March 31, 2026
Jon Jones has a signature style of crawling toward his opponent when the fight starts. People in the community have started speculating about what if Ciryl Gane just decides to punt him to deal with it.
When Jones faced Rampage Jackson for the first time, he was scared of Jackson’s brutal one-punch knockout power. He didn’t want to get knocked out in the first round itself, so he used a new method to prevent it. He started crawling towards him when the fight started.
Since the crawl’s success, Jones started doing it in every fight after that. People think that this will happen again when he faces Gane. And fans think, just what if, Gane thinks he has had enough and just decides to punt him?
Imagine Gane just says fuck it and just punts the shit out of him
— Ryan (@ryanmcd92) February 15, 2023
Jon Jones will be facing Ciryl Gane for the heavyweight title which was left vacant when Francis Ngannou was stripped of his title. It will be exciting to see Jon Jones back in the octagon after such a long wait.
Fans react to Jon Jones’ crawl
People in the MMA community have always found it hilarious to see a fighter like Jon Jones crawl toward his opponent, just to save himself from getting knocked out in the first round. Jones ever since the success of the crawl, has applied it to every fight since.
The fact that a successful and prolific fighter such as Jones crawls toward his opponent just to save himself from getting knocked out in the first round. Fans have made assumptions as to what Gane could do to stop the crawl.
Vitor was just like nah 😂
— MS (@UFC_Obsessed) February 15, 2023
The story of why he did it against rampage is the best. Said he was having constant nightmares of getting KO’d right away by him and no matter what he did it would always end up in a KO. He got in the octagon and didn’t know what to do so he crawled to the middle
— Nick Saltern (@94saltern) February 15, 2023
Yeah I remember the nightmare talk, but he crawled to the middle with people like Machida too 😂
— MS (@UFC_Obsessed) February 15, 2023
the crawl is so disrespectful. imagine a lightning quick masvidal knee.
— lord enoch (@he_negash) February 15, 2023
Sit back and wait for him to get up
— FortyRixx (@Ethanrix23) February 15, 2023
Crawl or no crawl, the return fight of Jon Jones will be exciting for the fans to see since it has been a very long time since he last fought. UFC 285 will decide who will be the new UFC heavyweight champion.
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