Like, with the jet lag and stuff I was waking up at 2 AM those days should have pretty flown in earlier but Moe comes at me and he's like “I will give you Chael Sonnen for this round if you do the absolute,” and I was like, “Okay. It's going down. Put me in.”

GAM: So, at that point you knew that you're going to do Submission Underground afterwards right?

CRAIG JONES: Yes, yes that was the funny thing as well because actually Chael we was suffering from jet lag too, so that Saturday morning me and him were up in the hotel lobby at like 3 AM, drinking coffees. We were chatting, talking about Submission Underground and he was talking about his Leo Viera match and then, yes, it just happened to be that we were going to be matched up against each other. Which, despite his public persona, it's actually not — he wasn't a problem. He's actually one of the nicest guys I've ever met to be honest. So, I knew it wouldn't be too complicated.

GAM: So, real talk: did you a) drunk enroll for a tournament? Or b) agreed to fight your boss? Or c) all the above?

CRAIG JONES: [Laughs] All of the above! I mean to be honest, I hadn't had a drink in three months so I had that one beer with Gordon's dad and I felt a little bit drunk, but by the time the match came around I had sobered up. Oh, I should have brought the beer out and put it on the side of the mat. That would’ve been funny.

GAM: Yeah, with the straw in it, just to add to it [laughter]. Yeah, so we've all been there, it's a thing that we all do. So that leads us to Submission Underground. Recently you competed in Submission Underground, could you tell us about that match and how it ended for us just to get it on the record?

CRAIG JONES: Yeah, so I had a match with Ben Egli who I believe is the King of the Cage champ. Like, he's an MMA fighter but predominantly an MMA grappler I think. [He goes for] a lot of takedowns, I looked at his record. He has a lot of rear naked choke victories. So, I came out matched up against him and I felt more pressure for that match after last weekend because like, people already were saying I should win before last weekend. Jiu-jitsu fighter versus MMA fighter but I definitely feel the pressure, I was like I can't beat Leandro Lo one weekend and lose to MMA fighter the next that wouldn't feel too good, but yeah I came out against him I think the first exchange was I went for a Kimura trap and turn it into an armbar but he was pretty tough. He escaped that and then the second entry was a leg lock from close guard, which I was able to get the finish on, but I mean yeah Ben's pretty tough dude. I think his ankle popped pretty bad before he tapped. Yeah what's off thing a lot of the heel hook seems to pop like a lot of guys don't have enough time to tap or something.