He defeated Reyes. He didn't finish him, but he won. Whether it goes the distance or not, he won... So?
And some guys that JJ beat end up not being the same after. Alexander Gustafsson was a killer when he was still within his rivalry with Jon Jones. He went to a split decision against prime DC in the fight of the year, defeated Glover, defeated a younger and fresher Jan Blachowicz... Then after he lost the second fight vs Jones, Gus also lost to Anthony Smith... I mean, Anthony Smith said he was studying JJ for a long time, and that seeing how one sided it was that he was hopeless there, he said it broke his spirit, in a way. But he wasn't an average Joe back then, he defeated Alexander Gustafsson...
Reyes had a real close match but lost. Reyes recently is still "nah that decision loss doesn't bother me.... But I want to do something about it, I want to have a defined criteria for judges, I want judges to have a score based on how badly or good they judge fights" ... Oh yeah, he's totally over it, sure. He can't accept that he lost. And the fact that the willingness to see JJ losing is so big made him delusional since the amount of fans and bots just saying "biggest robbery" to a fight that could go either way, but actually was more on Jon Jones' side, as he won and had a strong case for winning... But Jones won, and then Reyes got defeated 3x in a row...
He said that ever since JJ was about to fight DC first time, he was already studying Jones, watching every interviews Jones was in, looking for every info available on Jones... He said he was literally trying to understand Jon Jones' psychology, on what triggers him, on what he likes and doesn't like, on what idk... But he was, by the way he said recently, obsessed with Jon Jones to the fact he was reading and doing extensive research on Jones' career, life, interviews, then rewatching all his fights again and again, looking at every minor detail he could catch up. He lost, but it was a close match and he thought he won — in the press he even said "idk if it was 3-2 to me, I think it may have been 4-1 too, the fourth round I did well too. I don't need to rewatch the fight at all, I know I won." He is as "delusional" as the judge who gave it 4-1 to JJ, as he called that judge delusional. But the funny thing is, it could be 4-1 to Jones since rounds 2 and 3 were close and could very well be given to Jones depending on the criteria the judges saw as more effective under the Texas rules that didn't clarify which weight significant strikes amounted in comparison to effective strikes and cage control/pressure.
Jones defeated Gane, the one JJ didn't pick and choose like ppl lie to themselves, as Gane was the #1 ranked to fight for the title... JJ himself said that to him, Gane was not the most dangerous fighter there within the top 10, he literally had mentioned Sergei and Aspinall as guys that would be a bigger challenge in an interview. Ppl tho?? They don't even processed those names at the time and thought JJ was just BSing when talking about Gane being not a so complete fighter. They were all "lol Jones is already trying to boost himself up, Gane had a close fight and was outstriking Ngannou". JJ does exactly what he said he would do, make it look easy — then ppl SUDDENLY realized Gane was really not all that dangerous as JJ had been saying... But to delude themselves further (you gotta remember those ppl aren't looking for objective things, they are haters to the point they don't care if what they talk is dumb, as long as shit sticks) they acted as JJ picked an easy fight vs Gane since he knew Gane had weakness in the grappling.
JJ called Stipe and no one at the time contested, but as the fight was approaching and JJ talked about retirement, then the their brain weakness started to play again by making Stipe look like a Joe Biden or some old man that had CTE, all crazy stuff, saying the real danger was Ngannou that left or Sergei. Then Sergei lost and suddenly it became Aspinall.
They also played the "HWs are too easy, that's why JJ avoided LHW, he couldn't hold a candle to the new LHW generation"... Then JJ wanted to fight the one who defeated Jiri twice, same Jiri who defeated Reyes overwhelmingly, and then suddenly "JJ is running from the real talent that is in HW!! He knows LHW is undersized, Alex is a middleweight"...
I mean, what's the point in even trying to argue with ppl that deny 1 + 1 = 2 ? They know deep down they are illogical, have no coherence, but the feelings override any resemblance of rationality. Sad but true.
Btw, this wasn't supposed to become a "JJ vs Reyes or wtv" thread, it was a story that meant nothing other than a curious story Werdum said lol....