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Jon Jones has had quite a year. In four Octagon appearances, the UFC light heavyweight champion has earned four finishes, three of which have come in title fights.

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TORONTO – Chan Sung Jung, Frank Mir, Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida
each earned $75,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances
at Saturday’s UFC 140 event.

Jung earned the night’s “Knockout of the Night” award, Mir picked up
the “Submission of the Night” bonus, and Jones and Machida earned “Fight of the Night” honors.

MMAjunkie.com learned of the bonus winners and award amounts at UFC 139′s post-fight press conference.

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Jon Jones, Lyoto Machida, Frank Mir and Chan Sung Jung each took home $75,000 bonuses Saturday night for their performances at UFC 140.

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TORONTO – One lingering question has been answered: UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones can handle some adversity.

The seemingly indestructible champion faced some first-round troubles before storming back – in what’s quickly becoming vintage form – to earn a submission victory over challenger Lyoto Machida.

The fight took place at UFC 140 at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. It headlined the night’s pay-per-view main card and followed prelims on Facebook and ION Television.

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Jon Jones answered the first real adversity of his career in resounding fashion, choked Lyoto Machida unconscious to retain the UFC light heavyweight crown and completed perhaps the most remarkable 12-month run in mixed martial arts history.

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He’s being touted as the next generation of fighter, and 2011 has been a breakout year for the young superstar.

But will UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones hold off ex-champ Lyoto Machida in tonight’s UFC 140 pay-per-view headliner at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre?

That’s the question we asked in our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll.

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TORONTO – MMAjunkie.com was on scene and reporting live from today’s official UFC 140 fighter weigh-ins.

Today’s festivities took place at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, which also hosts Saturday’s pay-per-view event.

Among those weighing in were UFC light-heavyweight Jon Jones (who weighed 205 pounds) and challenger Loyoto Machida (204), who meet in the night’s main event.

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At the start of 2011, Jon Jones was a fast-rising prospect with a few more questions surrounding him than answers.

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Roughly eight months after the UFC broke box-office records at Toronto’s
Rogers Centre with UFC 129, the promotion returns to the city in a
venue that’s more business as usual for its live events.

UFC 140 features light-heavyweight champ Jon Jones’ third fight and
second defense of his title this year when he meets former champ Lyoto
Machida on the top of the card.

In our official event preview, MMAjunkie.com’s Steven Marrocco looks at that title fight and the night’s other pay-per-view main-card bouts.

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TORONTO – Few people were caught as off guard to UFC 140′s announced main event as one of the guys in it.

With Rashad Evans again injured, UFC officials booked UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones against-ex-titleholder Lyoto Machida in this weekend’s pay-per-view headliner.

As Machida today told MMAjunkie.com, you can count him among the initially surprised parties.

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