Media Daniel Cormier: “Jon Jones doesn’t look like the same guy at heavyweight”

[BoxerMaurits]

 

[RoyJonesJr]

The fight was over too soon to tell

but common sense will tell me, yes the 35-year-old putting on all that extra weight after a long layoff is obviously not in his prime anymore

Is normal

 

[Prex32]

we will only find out if the fight goes longer than one round

 

[XociDe]

I agree but at the same time he was in there with the fastest, most athletic guy in the division and he looked equally as fast and athletic. It's because we're so used to seeing him at 205. No one is beating Jones at HW unless he stays around too long.

 

[MEAN357]

Doesn't need to be the same guy to choke out the #1 contender off a 3 year layoff so who gives a fuck

 

[Willy Knuckles]

He can't just compliment the guy. Always some back handed comment that isn't needed.

 

[Viva]

The fight was 2 minutes long.

For Cormier to make such an assessment on such a little sample size really just shows he's still salty about Jones' continued success.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

The fight was over too soon to tell

but common sense will tell me, yes the 35-year-old putting on all that extra weight after a long layoff is obviously not in his prime anymore

Is normal

I don’t think it has to do with Jon being in his prime or not, but obviously he’s going to move different after putting on all that weight

 

[Gamer2k4]

Once the fight got to the ground, it absolutely looked like the same Jones. Before that was what, a minute of fight time standing? So who knows?

 

[CieloLuce]

Well Jones is 35yrs old, 3yr layoff and also fight miles.

At some point he wont look the same.

Bigger question is, does DC want a piece or not?

 

[humdizzle]

you know its eating up DC inside every day since the fight

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Once the fight got to the ground, it absolutely looked like the same Jones. Before that was what, a minute of fight time standing? So who knows?

Jones himself said he felt a little goofy in the standup. Has to do with the long layoff too

 

[mudrubble]

He can't just compliment the guy. Always some back handed comment that isn't needed.

Well he said "as we'd expect from anyone putting on 20 lbs".

I see it more as analysis than backhanded compliment. But I hear you.

 

[Azure]

I agree but at the same time he was in there with the fastest, most athletic guy in the division and he looked equally as fast and athletic. It's because we're so used to seeing him at 205. No one is beating Jones at HW unless he stays around too long.

The fastest most athletic guy with no grappling. Might looks different against Blaydes or Aspinall

 

[Hypetrainofthemonth]

The fight was over too soon to tell

but common sense will tell me, yes the 35-year-old putting on all that extra weight after a long layoff is obviously not in his prime anymore

Is normal

Pretty much this, all though I feel as if it were anybody else, Jon would be getting much more praise that he does kinda deserve!(PED failures or not)

But yeah, his return fight for the HW championship was over too quickly for anyone to definitively say that Jon is still 100%.

Although there is more evidence to suggest that Jon is/should be on the decline as he is 35+, at a heavier weight he just started to fight in(even though a literal decade of teasing of moving up), extremely long lay off, outside factors, and now having to face opponents that are far more likely to be his size or even bigger.

So it's safe to say that Jon is on the decline, but still seemingly great enough to pull off championship wins.

 

[legcramp]

Well Jones is 35yrs old, 3yr layoff and also fight miles.

At some point he wont look the same.

Bigger question is, does DC want a piece or not?

Depends if it comes with a side of mashed potatoes and mac n'cheese

 

[BrockLesnarsTurtleBack]

DC still there?

 

[DebtCollectorMMA]

Jones actually looked younger in there than he did 3 years ago

 

[Tweak896]

Jones may not be as fast as he was at 205, but no one who goes from LHW>HW is. All that matters is how fast he is relative to the rest of the division. Gane is one of the fastest HWs and Jones was moving like he was a few steps ahead of him in the small amount of time the fight went on. DC himself wasn't as quick at HW, but still I wouldn't say he was slow because he was much faster than everyone else. Just seems like an odd takeaway to what was pretty much a perfect fight for Jones.

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

He can't just compliment the guy. Always some back handed comment that isn't needed.

Can you blame him?

The dude knocked him out while on PEDs and probably damaged him in ways we dont even know about.