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Well, he beat up Gustaffson, Santos and Reyes. Making it a close match # losing. Sure, he has proved that he is human. Everyone is human. It's hard for someone to fight 30x, against heavy competition, many fighters being in the hall of fame, defending his title, like, 15x and to not have a close match in neither of those. Khabib had the same record, but again, Khabib had as many fighters in the UFC as Jon Jones had title defenses, basically. Much of Khabib's fights, half actually, were in another organization where the fighters had, like, an average to poor win lose ratio and streak. Ofc Jon Jones record will make him look more human than someone whose records came from fighting way less high level fighters.
Still though, since 2011, fighting monsters, and not losing once, despite the fighters making it close, is absurd, is something that no one did. Not only that, you can't fight all you want against that, but after he beat up Gus the second time, the division was kinda boring, there was no big name. JJ still fought the new generation there (not all fighters ofc) and beat up the 3 fighters from the new generation whom the organization put him against. Then he moved to HW, many ppl saying that'd be his biggest challenge (saying Gane was a midget is easy to say after the fact, very few ppl were even saying that before), defeated Gane like child's play. Then he defeated Miocic... Miocic is older, but Miocic was as old as DC was when DC fought Miocic the third time. Miocic was, then, as old as JJ now. DC made it very challenging still. Miocic wasn't the only one who had been inactive, Jon Jones pretty much only fought Reyes... Then he had a 3 minutes experience as a HW against a young, fast, strong guy — Gane — then had a nasty injury that took him away from training for 8 months. He had never even been in a second round, every as a heavyweight. Stipe? Many time. JJ still made it look easy.
Stipe was slow? Sure, Shogun was also slow after JJ beat him up in the g&p, while landing wayyyy less elbows than vs Miocic. You are going to slow down after getting hit 50x by a HW in the g&p. The fact is, Jon Jones isn't a thing of the past, as of yet... He keeps winning. There is no denying that. Ofc Aspinall is a very tough match. But to say he will easily defeat Jon? Quoting DDP here:
"Come on, how people can say that? He moved up, people were saying Gane would be the biggest challenge ever... He made it look like child's play. People who ignore history, are the naive ones".
