Yes, LHW is the more skilled tougher division, so HW is easier and get you more money.... Jones would not be a small HW like DC, he have bigger rich than every HW and is 6' 4... So you believe that he is afraid of getting KOed from a hail Mary punch than that he doesn't feel so big for HW.
Sure for some guys here will it be "HW sucks", but there opinion does'nt matter, HW is th biggest devision, so they are the strongest, the fight at HV are more difficult and more risky. Even if they suck HW is the baddest division.
To the PED thing, he can give credit only to himself for taking them... he can not erase it, it is a fact, he had some cycles and they found the leftovers from his last cycle.