Jones: Eye Pokes Are Just A Coincidence

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Dominick Reyes is worried that Jon Jones will poke him in the eyes when they collide in the UFC 247 pay-per-view (PPV) main event this Sat. night (Feb. 8, 2020) inside Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

And “Bones” couldn’t be happier.

“I fight how I fight,” Jones insisted. “I grab for hands a lot, and over the years, I’ve coincidentally landed a few eyepokes. But if you guys think I trained poking people in the eyes, think about how ridiculous that is. We fight with our fingers open, and I can be a very reachy fighter sometimes, and it happens.”

One man’s reachy is another man’s dirty.