Saying Tom has a win over #3, which is Volkov, when Tom beat Volkov when he was #6 at the time is in fact retroactively ranking Tom’s opponents for him.
Great, then bump Pavlovich up to the #2 he was at the time, and Jon still pulled a senior citizen out of retirement who hadn't won a fight in over 4 years and immediately retired again after. Was anybody supposed to be impressed by a title defense over the #8 even if it wasn't just keeping him blatantly propped in the rankings?
Jon also hasn't been submitted, unlike Tom
This Jones would toy with Aspinall. Not the current Jones though.Meanwhile, white belt Jones refused to get tapped by black belt TRT Vitor. The mental fortitude of this guy is unreal.
Then submitted black belt TRT Vitor in the end.
What was that from Aspinall?
This is just wrong. There's a gap in boxing offense, sure, but Jones's boxing defense is absolutely elite, and his jab is highly effective in combination with his kicks at managing distance. What makes this fight interesting is precisely that no one really knows for sure how the elite MMA boxing offense of Aspinall vs. the elite MMA boxing defense of Jones will play out since both fighters are so much better at those relative strengths than any other competition either has faced. Now if the Jones from the Gus 1 fight shows up - the only version of Jones to ever take meaningful cumulative boxing damage in the cage - Aspinall would have an easy time of it, but that was pretty clearly and by a wide margin the worst version of Jones since the Bonnar fight.
No actually next to no one thought Gane had a chance. Most of us were calling it a farse
that would be first for many on sherdog
So no, nobody higher than #1 Gane you refused to give Jon while meanwhile making up fake ranks for Tom?
Yet, he cruised through Strikeforce and UFC's HW dropping fighters twice his size like toddlers until the rematch with Stipe (was in his 40s)
Context is important here.
Gane had a better resume than current Aspinall before he got clowned. Let's not talk about Jones decade long feats and comparing to Aspinall's whose only feat was downing opponents who weren't contender worthy.
He's fighting in the same division as Jones and he's #1 himself with first round finishes over #3,4, 5, 7 and 8, while Jon has 1 win over an active fighter and then fought a senior citizen he pulled out of retirement. Aspinall's HW resume is better than Jon's by quite a lot.
And Jones subbed Hendo but you left that out ehYet, he cruised through Strikeforce and UFC's HW dropping fighters twice his size like toddlers until the rematch with Stipe (was in his 40s)
He's certainly not small, everyone described DC as a brick shithouse when they met him.
One example here is Fedor who fought HW all his life but got dropped by Henderson and there was barely any size difference.
Compared to DC who made him look small.
Context is important here.
The nerve of a 25 years old white belt who did this against black belt TRT Vitor who had a reputation of decapitating opponents.
Compared to Aspinall who pillow fisted a noname who didn't appear hurt and managed to think of a way to overcome it.
Think what Jones would do if that was him? He's gonna be making sure they aren't going to come out unscathed.
Even now for a 37 years old, his GnP game is still strong.
Lol, yeah, getting wrestlefucked by a striker and dropped by Tai Tuivasa in the year before Jones handpicked him to immediately take down was real scary.
One particular reason why I believes Jones will win because of the mentality difference between the two. Jones have shown to be extremely resilient and a tough nut to crack.
He fought with a broken toe but it didn't stop him from giving up and won the fight.
Compared to Aspinall who folded after landing a kick.
On top of that, he bull rushed, went straight to Blaydes and fought recklessly that led to his injury.
His knees, hip and eye orbital will be gone if he bull rushes and gets inside Jones like that.
Jones opponents who fought recklessly have said they received devastating injuries and was never the same afterward.
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En skada stoppade Alexander Gustafsson i titelmatchen mot Jon Jones. Nu berättar UFC-stjärnan varför han inte kunde röra sig i oktagonen. – Så fort jag gjorde något så raspade det och knakade, säger ”The Mauler”.www.expressen.se
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With the help of his girlfriend, UFC bantamweight Yana Kunitskaya, Thiago Santos' return from a devastating injury is nearly complete.www.espn.com.au
Dominick Reyes shows off battered legs following narrow loss to Jon Jones at UFC 247
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Edit - Post #18 to reinforce my argument
