Daniel Cormier responds to Jon Jones

[prime_lobov]

Jon still living rent free in DC’s head. Ironically Jon is also well past his prime, yet he doesn’t need to fight to mentally defeat both DC and Tommy Aspinall. Tom is sitting on the sidelines pouting, wasting his prime while Jones snorts coke and negotiates for more millions from Dana.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Heavyweight is a compliment to his career, not a necessity. Champions aren’t required to move up. Francis Ngannou and Tom Aspinall so far would be the least accomplished fighters on his championship resume, were those fights to occur. Don’t let the Gen Z fans who started watching for Conor McGregor convince you otherwise.

It’s also ironic because for years people considered heavyweight to be the division for people too lazy to cut to light heavyweight. And people said the talent at LHW was higher. But of course that switched up really quick.

Jon Jones is the only guy who’s ducking by not moving up. But if you make that argument for GSP facing Anderson, people will lose their minds— saying Anderson was picking on little George’s (meanwhile none of those tough heavyweight guys were remotely willing to come down to face Jon like Anderson was with GSP).

It reminds me of how people said Floyd Mayweather was ducking Gennady Golovkin by not moving up to 160lbs, complete nonsense.

Difference between Jon and everyone else you listed is Jon went up puposefully to be a paper champ, holding up a division for his own ego in the process. No one would have had a nissue had Jon retired at LHW, or retired after beating Gane and letting go of the title, or retired with Stipe.

I agree HW is a compliment to his career, or at least it would have been, had he not turned into a ducking coward. As of now, Jon's move to HW has only hurt his legacy in the eyes of real fans.

 

[MDoza]

Lmao Jones knows he’s pissing everyone off, and he’s loving it.

 

[Superzorro]

Difference between Jon and everyone else you listed is Jon went up puposefully to be a paper champ, holding up a division for his own ego in the process. No one would have had a nissue had Jon retired at LHW, or retired after beating Gane and letting go of the title, or retired with Stipe.

I agree HW is a compliment to his career, or at least it would have been, had he not turned into a ducking coward. As of now, Jon's move to HW has only hurt his legacy in the eyes of real fans.

No, absolutely not. See, that’s the emotional woman in you speaking.

How can you genuinely say that two wins take away from a resume? Realistically, if we’re using sound logic, it’s impossible for a win to have a negative impact on a resume. We can debate how significant the positive is. We can even make the argument that the positive is so minuscule and close to a zero that it basically amounts to nothing (like Floyd Mayweather facing Conor McGregor for his 50th win). But it’s impossible to make the argument that a win can put you into the negatives. You’re just upset and trying to use that as an argument. Resume’s aren’t a popularity contest. A win is a win. Forget fan, no real man will take what you’re saying seriously after reading that.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

I've always said i, I truly believe DC would've beaten anyone, including Jones, at HW. Yeah i get it he got KO'd by Stipe and Jones, but that was when he was 40+. In his prime he was damn near unstoppable. He drained himself to make LHW. even some of the guys that trained with him said he lost almost half his strength when he dropped down that much weight, and he still beat everyone at LHW except for Jones.

Probably a reason Jon kept his mouth shut till years after his retirement.

 

[TimeToTrain]

HW DC would have Jones take double the steroids

 

[PrideNverDies]

DC already got that smoke. Twice.

You mean the fight that Jones popped for roids in and was changed to NC blemish on his record?