Mike Tyson Effect = Jon Jones (currently), Fedor (previously)

The Mike Tyson Effect is not merely about someone's "knockout power".

Good read on what it's supposed to mean:

http://www.mmamania.com/2011/9/26/2451942/ufc-quick-quote-jon-jones-already-has-the-mike-tyson-effect

At just 24-years-young, and with little more than three years of professional mixed martial arts (MMA) experience, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones is already beating his opponents mentally before they are locked inside a cage with him. That's according to Pat Barry, who explained on today's UFC on Versus 6conference call that "Bones" is so good, and so dangerous, that he is downright scary. So scary, in fact, that it strikes fear into the hearts and minds of his overmatched opposition. Quinton Jackson, admittedly, couldn't pull the trigger in their recent fight at UFC 135. Mauricio Rua got straight up smoked at UFC 128. In fact, no one to date has even come close figuring out the 6'4" phenom. Boxing's former undisputed heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson, tore through the sport's best with similar ease back in the late 1980s, before Buster Douglas miraculously proved that he was mortal. Fabricio Werdum accomplished a similar feat in MMA when he upended the previously unstoppable Fedor Emelianenko just last year. Is this the beginning of Jones' long journey to perceived invincibility or can someone figure him out sooner than expected?


Just sayin'

* Edited at 01.09.2012, 10:55 PM ET *

I see. I'll have to change my list

@usmc, haha. I know what youre talking about. In the other thread, I was about to post Jones as an example too.

Beware of the NOOBS... 

noobs to combat sports.

All-Time
1. Fedor
2. Anderson
3. Jon Jones
4. Chuck Liddell
5. Royce Gracie
6. Bas Rutten
7. Wanderlei Silva
8. Matt Hughes
9. Cro Cop
10. Rampage


Currently
1. Jon Jones
2. Anderson Silva
3. Junior dos Santos
4. Jose Aldo
5. GSP
6. Hector Lombard
7. Alistair Overeem
8. Nick Diaz
9. Gilbert Melendez
10. Jimi Manuwa

* Edited at 01.09.2012, 11:23 PM ET *

@USMC Well i was going to thank you for bringing this up but since you called me and everybody who build this list a NOOB i changed my opinion on that. Instead of thanking you I call you SMARTY-PANTS from now on...

Fair enough isn't it?

It's alright.  Maybe a bit of a cheap-shot on my part, but this just irked me for some reason.

If you're not a Boxing fan, or you're too young... no big deal, you didn't know.