Jon Jones doesn’t get enough credit for becoming two-weight UFC champion.

[B-Level]

Jon’s critics claimed for years that Jon would never have the courage to fight and challenge any top HWs, let alone challenge for the belt.

Enter Ciryl Gane. In his prime. The new “next generation” of athletic HWs. Yes, he had just lost a razor close split decision to Ngannou (who was knocking everyone out).

A lot of people on this forum and in general were arguing that Gane should have beaten Ngannou, making him the rightful undisputed HW champ.

Jon walks in the octagon after a 4 year hiatus, and makes Gane cry uncle in 3 minutes.

Extremely impressive arc to the end of Jon’s career.

 

[BigTruck]

Gane was literally the easiest opponent for jon at the time and stipe is 42 and hasn't fought in 3 years dude, Jon's the MMA goat and I hate that bc he's a fucking turd Ferguson but his hw run is 1 cherry picked fight deep and about to be 2 cherry picked fights deep.

 

[STRYDG]

I hope Stipe beats him but sorry, wont give full credit unless he beats someone like Aspinall. Cant deny he went up and got the belt but need a real test to cement it.

 

[Luthien]

HW is so thin that Jon is still fighting scraps from Francis title fights all these years later XD Gane/Stipe

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

It’s cause he’s held up the HW belt for so long I reckon, it shits me

 

[Arm Barbarian]

He's literally had one fight with a guy who shit the bed the second the fight entered the grappling phase.

For his first defense after ages of sitting out, he's fighting another guy whose been inactive for ages, entering senior citizen era.

If anything, the Picto pulsing cheater gets far too much praise for anything regarding HW.

 

[Problem24/7]

Gane was literally the easiest opponent for jon at the time and stipe is 42 and hasn't fought in 3 years dude, Jon's the MMA goat and I hate that bc he's a fucking turd Ferguson but his hw run is 1 cherry picked fight deep and about to be 2 cherry picked fights deep.

Man shut up. This wasn't the narrative leading up to that fight. It's only after Jones destroyed him that Gane is the easiest opponent, Gane sucks etc. Such a smelly little casual fan girl you are.

 

[TheBulge]

Gane was literally the easiest opponent for jon at the time and stipe is 42 and hasn't fought in 3 years dude, Jon's the MMA goat and I hate that bc he's a fucking turd Ferguson but his hw run is 1 cherry picked fight deep and about to be 2 cherry picked fights deep.

No, not 'at the time' but in hindsight.

Majority of sherdoggers thought Gane was too dangerous and was going to smoke him. But lets rewrite history instead.

 

[Ibm]

We barely saw Jones at HW, not enough time to prove anything, for all we know Gane could have had an off night. GSP at least lasted longer with Bisping and even took beatings.

 

[CasualBot]

He fought Gane after Francis laid on him for multiple rounds.

Gane is a gatekeeper at best.

Like beating the Cerrone of Heavyweight.

 

[DiazSlap]

Bunch of triggered Betas hatin on the GOAT-Jones….

Hey p*ssies are you still there?

 

[Bobby Boulders]

He's gotten the amount of praise he deserves.

 

[Sir Punchalot]

Lol. The HW title was given to Jones. It means absolutely fuck all, and makes the UFC look like a complete joke. That is the truth of it. Total paper champion.

 

[Final Say]

Man shut up. This wasn't the narrative leading up to that fight. It's only after Jones destroyed him that Gane is the easiest opponent, Gane sucks etc. Such a smelly little casual fan girl you are.

Wrong. Lot of people called it a squash match

 

[ThePimblettEra]

Different rules apply to different fighters, you should know this by now.

There are still "GOAT" contenders who never moved up and starved themselves to make weight.

It is what it is, people are fickle & stupid, my man.
JBJ was already the GOAT (objectively, look at his record) before moving up.
Moving up just solidified it.

 

[J'Ghasta]

Lets see Jon in an actual fight at heavyweight first. The Gane thing wasnt even a fight. Was a fluke. If he goes to war with Stipe and wins then I'll give him his credit.

 

[Problem24/7]

Wrong. Lot of people called it a squash match

Wrong.

They said Jones would look terrible at HW. Doubled down after his weigh in photos.
They said Jones had trouble beating LHWs so how could he beat people bigger than him like Gane.
Don't try to go back in time and switch the narrative now you stinky little dork.

 

[SuperNerd]

Fight Tom and it all goes away

 

[joy2day]

The praise for him has been so wildly overblown it is a joke; Jones worship really blew up after that. Jones won some questionable decisions against LHWs that weren't so great, then he beat a guy with zero grappling that never deserved to be in there at HW.

Frank was injured against Gane BTW, if you can't tell by the way he is standing and moving in that fight, I can't say I'm impressed with your knowledge. Watch the fight and compare it to his other fights. If anything, it showed how sad Gane is that he could be smothered like that by a guy with a leg injury.

 

[Clark Rogers]

Man shut up. This wasn't the narrative leading up to that fight. It's only after Jones destroyed him that Gane is the easiest opponent, Gane sucks etc. Such a smelly little casual fan girl you are.

This.

Gane had "the best HW footwork of all time" and MANY were claiming him to be future HW GOAT all the way up until the second he absolutely shit the bed against Jon. That's the exact moment he became the "easiest fight available."

Edit - i kinda wish I had a dollar for every "Gane via whatever he wants" posts that were made here in the lead up to that fight.