Before Jon Jones, what was the worst example of a heavyweight champion avoiding a top contender?

dogsdonutsdragons said:
hes avoiding no one. you absolute idiots. tom suck nutters. butt sucking turd burgs know nothing.

jon said he wanted to vacate and get a fight vs someone with a lot of accolades rather then fight the next up and coming guy. dana goes im making the fight- jon then says in multiple interviews and to the ufc he will vacate no problem he prefers a legacy fight for his final fight the only way he would take it is if they paid him like 30 mil. reasonable. its his last fight hes the goat. dana hears this and goes- we are making the fight and the duck narrative starts - dana never made the fight or offered whaty jon was asking or even listened to what jon said . so jon never vacated trolled the fans trolled tom trolled dana and wins again. undisputed goat. get the hell out of here you stupid turd burger absolute idiots.
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Jon's drunk again
 
This is it. We've had a few interim champs here and there.... but none with as many title defenses as the actual champion.
 
markg171 said:
Yeah Conor avoided Aldo who he KO’d in 13 seconds and Khabib who was his very next fight.
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Aldo was the Interim champion...promoted to Undisputed because well, you know who wasnt going to make 145 ever again, ducked him or not, at LW...took him a while to decide to fight and the only one really available was Khabib, who had the belt, when he could duck (champion), he did.
 
dogsdonutsdragons said:
hes avoiding no one. you absolute idiots. tom suck nutters. butt sucking turd burgs know nothing.

jon said he wanted to vacate and get a fight vs someone with a lot of accolades rather then fight the next up and coming guy. dana goes im making the fight- jon then says in multiple interviews and to the ufc he will vacate no problem he prefers a legacy fight for his final fight the only way he would take it is if they paid him like 30 mil. reasonable. its his last fight hes the goat. dana hears this and goes- we are making the fight and the duck narrative starts - dana never made the fight or offered whaty jon was asking or even listened to what jon said . so jon never vacated trolled the fans trolled tom trolled dana and wins again. undisputed goat. get the hell out of here you stupid turd burger absolute idiots.
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We found Mark Hunt’s account
 
El Fernas said:
Aldo was the Interim champion...promoted to Undisputed because well, you know who wasnt going to make 145 ever again, ducked him or not, at LW...took him a while to decide to fight and the only one really available was Khabib, who had the belt, when he could duck (champion), he did.
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Yeah Conor should’ve fought the guy who beat Aldo.

Oh wait he’d already beaten Holloway too.

Quit acting like there weren’t plenty of good reasons why Conor never went back to 145.
 
markg171 said:
Yeah Conor should’ve fought the guy who beat Aldo.

Oh wait he’d already beaten Holloway too.

Quit acting like there weren’t plenty of good reasons why Conor never went back to 145.
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Frankie Edgar was the worst possible match up for Connor so he left
 
no... there is no other HW example of this. Jon Jones is exclusive to this scummy behavior

Strikeforce probably had a better HW division at the time so just stop if u were gonna say fedor... nor was he ever the Strikeforce champ
 
Fight Professor said:
DC fought them multiple times. He is one of the few fighters who would fight anyone except his friend Cain.
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DC was quite literally stripped of his LHW title for refusing to defend against Jones for a 3rd fight because he had a “hand injury” preventing him from accepting the proposed December date meanwhile he was telling the UFC he was fine to instead fight retired Brock a week later in January. Notably not Jones a week later. He also then accepted a fight against Lewis a month before this proposed Jones date in November despite this supposed hand injury, while turning down Stipe who also accepted that date and for that proposed January date too. Was complete horseshit to avoid Jones or Stipe. An imaginary hand injury that appeared or disappeared depending on the level of opponent.

He then proceeded to call out the retired Lesnar instead of either of them, before not fighting either or anybody for like 9 months until forced to after it was either Stipe or Francis who he said he wanted no part of. And Despite saying he’d fight the winner of Jones/Gus 2 and then never mentioning it again after Jones KO’d Gus the way he did.

Not even going to talk about the rest of his career where yes he blatantly also avoided guys like Cain, Bader, Francis, and others. DC is the poster child for having a curated career where his accomplishments came from outside factors instead of DC’s own abilities. The only reason you guys don’t treat him like a Whittaker, who he resembles far closer to than the Izzy to Robert’s time, is because you simply hate Jones and want to make him some legitimate #1 and GOAT fighter. He was a good fighter, overshadowed by his betters. We all saw it multiple times. And he knew it too which is why he avoided them. It’s beyond silly to pretend that wasn’t his career where all his accomplishments have giant fucking asterisks beside them.

For God sake even his “Grand Prix win” involved him stepping into the semi finals after better fighters had already bowed out or been eliminated. Man’s gotten the most overrated breaks in history.
 
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