Craig Benjamin Jones (born 17 July 1991) is an Australian grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor and coach.
[3] Years later, Jones moved to New York in order to train under John Danaher and alongside Gordon Ryan.
[4] Jones moved with the rest of the team to Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic to continue training and preparing for competitions.
[15] A year later in 2016 Jones won bronze at the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship in the brown belt division.
[3] In 2017 Jones qualified again for the ADCC World Championship, this time during the Championship Jones submitted 5x Black Belt World Champion Leandro Lo, Unity BJJ coach Murilo Santana and Chael Sonnen before losing the semi-final to Keenan Cornelius and the 3rd place to Alexandre Ribeiro.
[18] In 2022, Jones returned to ADCC and won silver again after moving to the -99 kg division,[19] defeating 3 x World Champion Nicholas Meregali in the semi-final, before losing via points (4-0) to Kaynan Duarte.
[20][21] Jones was booked to compete in a rematch against Meregali at Who's Number One on 25 February 2023, but had to withdraw and the match was postponed.
[22] Jones competed against Felipe Pena in the main event of UFC Fight Pass Invitational 4 on 29 June 2023.
[30] Jones competed against Philip Rowe in the main event of Karate Combat's Pit Submission Series 2 on February 23, 2024.
[15] In 2020, Jones moved to Puerto Rico with Gordon Ryan and other members of the Danaher Death Squad,[46] before he eventually relocated to Austin, Texas to found B Team Jiu-Jitsu in 2021.