5 November 2005: An undersized Rashad Evans wins the TUF 2 heavyweight tournament, he then drops to 205lbs and joins Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico .
9 August 2008: 21-year-old Jon Jones makes his UFC debut with a unanimous decision victory over Andre Gusmao, after only eight month of training.
6 September 2008: Evans earned UFC title shot with a one-punchknockout of UFC legend Chuck 'The Iceman' Liddell
27 December 2008: Evans knocks out Forrest Griffin in the third round to lift the UFC world light-heavyweight title.
31 January 2009: Jones beats contender Stephan Bonnar on points at UFC 94, becomes talk of MMA with his spinning elbows and suplexes.
23 May 2009: Evans loses his UFC world championship to Lyoto Machida in a second-round knockout defeat, the lone reversal of his career
22 August 2009: After promising not to fight any of his new team-mates in the Octagon, Jones joins Jackson gym. According to Evans, Jackson specifically asked for his permission to allow the obviously talented Jones to join the team. Over the next year, both Evans and Jones would continually repeat the mantra they will never fight the other.
30 September 2009: Evans predicts new team-mate Jones will be champion someday, pair come to regard the other as brothers
29 May 2010: Evans wins grudge match against 'Rampage' Jackson and becomes the No1 contender to champ ‘Shogun’ Rua.
10 June 2010: Rua suffers serious knee injury and rather than take interim bout, Evans decides to wait for his title shot. The fight is eventually set for March 2011
4 February 2011: News breaks that Evans is injured and will be unable to challenge the fully-healed 'Shogun' Rua for the UFC world light-heavyweight belt.
5 February 2011: Jones runs through fellow prospect and contender Ryan Bader with surprising ease and – with Evans’s blessing - is offered the title fight vs Rua.
6 February 2011: Evans predicts Jones will “destroy” Rua in the first round of their light-heavyweight title fight.
10 February 2011: Asked repeatedly, Evans claims he will move division rather than face Jones should his ‘brother’ win.
3 March 2011: During the broadcast of UFC Live: Sanchez vs. Kampmann, Jones said: “I respect (UFC President) Dana White a lot and, if that's what he absolutely wanted (the Rashad fight) to happen, then I guess that's what would have to happen.”
4 March 2011: Asked to respond on MMA Live, a visibly upset Evans said: “I am no punk. If Jon wins the (title) I got to sit down with the team and decide what to do.”
19 March 2011: Jones becomes the youngest UFC world champion in history, destroying Rua before going nose to nose with Evans in the Octagon.
19 March 2011: Speaking with MMA Fighting, Evans stuns the MMA world, announcing he has left Team Jackson. “I'm done with Jackson's. And I know how to fight Jon. I trained with him for a long time.”
12 May 2011: Evans and Jones nearly come to blows at Surrender, a Las Vegas nightclub and they are separated by Georges St-Pierre.
24 September 2011: Jones submits 'Rampage' in the fourth round of his first UFC world championship defence.
6 October 2011: Evans is forced to pull out of yet another date with Jones, due to a dislocated thumb injury picked up in his win over Ortiz.
10 December 2011: Jones caps off an incredible 2011 with a second successful title defence, this time against former champion Lyoto Machida.
28 January 2012: Evans easily defeats previously unbeaten Davis over five rounds in an eliminator bout to determine the next UFC title challenger.
30 January 2012: New emerges Evans picks up an injury – again – vs Davis and there is fear the already twice-postponed super-fight may once again be off.
6 February 2012: Jon Jones vs Rashad Evans – perhaps the biggest 205lbs title fight since Liddell vs Ortiz II – is on. The fight is set for Atlanta in April.
