Jonny 'Bones' Jones: Remind Anyone Else Of Forrest Griffin?

Seriously, am I the only one?

I mean, I see the parallels to Anderson Silva—everything except the taunting, the affiliation with Greg Jackson, and the youth, all aside from the obvious fact that Jonny "Bones" Jones isn't a UFC Middleweight—he never was.

Have you seen the elbows, the spinning-strike clinic, the back-fists and back-kicks, the way he, too, can come from insane angles, and the throws?

I mean, have you seen anyone else in the UFC throw a German Suplex like Bones?

It's stuff like that that convinces me that Jones has some parallels to Silva, but there is one other thing in which I see a parallel, too, and it's not Silva-related.

Actually, it's a parallel to Forrest Griffin, and no, it's not that he's a hairy dude, because Jones is far from that.

It's not really the outside or inside leg kicks, either.

There's really only one, and that's in the fact that both men could really give a rat's ass who they fight.

The fact is they both love to fight, and in Jones' case, it doesn't matter who is in front of him.

As MMAJunkie.com reports, it could be a fight with Shogun, Machida, Rampage, or even James Toney next on Jones' agenda.

Hey, if Randy Couture can move up in weight and still be a hell of a fighter, then who says Jones can't?

He's beaten the runner-up to the original Ultimate Fighter, along with a favorite of Season Three of The Ultimate Fighter in Matt Hamill (in a loss on a technicality) and a former WEC standout in Brandon "The Truth" Vera, who was perceived as the guy who was supposed to be the king at 265 pounds by now. Now, he's beaten the man who was once a contender to Tito Ortiz in "The Janitor" Vladmir Matyushenko.

Jones doesn't crush cans, but he beats up promising fighters as well as some of the toughest veterans of the game and makes it look easy.

And yet, like Forrest Griffin, who openly admitted that he wasn't the best in the world but would fight anybody, Jones has admitted that he'd do the same.

Seems like our Middleweight Champ isn't the only one who has something in common with the UFC's most valuable prospect.

One of our former UFC Light Heavyweight Champions, who went the distance with a future UFC Hall-of-Famer and beat a PRIDE Legend for the 205-lb division belt, does also share common ground with the young rising 205er—a man who he could wind up facing one day in the Octagon.

But is that a bad thing?

Doesn't sound like it at all to me.