Are you seriously comparing training with a better fighter to serious, full contact competition where you will risk getting hurt badly? Not to mention the different thing about getting beaten up in practice (happens to everyone) to going out and taking a career risk with a loss in front of millions of eyes. There's so much more to it than just getting beaten up.
Like many have clearly shown, career wise and imago wise Chael had nothing to lose.
I would never compare some sparring beating to the way Cigano got beaten up or the way Weidman beat Munoz and I would never compare the career/imago risk of sparring session with Miocic taking a fight with Maldonado or Shlemenko taking on Ortiz.
But Jones-Chael was a fight where Chael had nothing to lose besides his health and he handled that risk by turtling up.
Damn, I pretty clearly stated that the beating Chael took was much more than sparring session of mine but Chael is a freaking pro fighter, I am not. So subjectively the beating was pretty similar.
I'm a fuckking anonymous Sherdog pussy who doesn't get paid, Chael is pro athlete who probably got close to million. Of course he takes bigger beatings but it doesn't mean he's super brave or fearless, it just means he's much higher level fighter, physically superior to me and much tougher.