Every month I get several people searching for information on former Buccaneer Marcus Jones and his MMA career. He started off not knowing anything about the sport, but now he's apparently working his way up the ladder.

An exceptional athlete, Jones picked up the sport quickly and made his professional MMA debut at World Fighting Championships 5 in Tampa during October of last year. He steamrolled Will Mora, submitting him with a Kimura at 1:02 of round 1.

Competing for the Real Fighting Championships less than a month later, Jones needed just 2:32 of round 1 to record a TKO victory over Eduardo Boza.

I remember in college a friend of mine who was into Jiu-Jitsu demonstrated a Kimura lock on me. Man, it hurt and I submitted in about a second and a half and was sore for a couple days after. Many years later, I found out that my friend had come out of the closet and that it wasn't really necessary for us to get undressed for him to demonstrate this move to me. I won't elaborate on where I was sore.

Oh yeah, back to Jones. Good luck to him with his career. I kind of poked fun at it in October when he first debuted, but it's obvious that he's serious about it and he seems to be doing well. Also, I have to thank him for making me actually laugh out loud this morning after reading this sentence about MMA injuries:

"In my second fight I broke my hand on the guy's face."

I envisioned him coming home to his wife after the fight, holding his broken hand. She asks what happened and he says in a frustrated tone, "I broke my hand on this guy's face," kind of like the rest of us would complain about forgetting to file a report on time or something. Awesome.