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Jon Jones on fighting HW DC: "To give him a power and strength advantage over me would make no sense"

The XL said:
DC was better at HW than LHW
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Yup, and he only dropped to 205 because he knew it was Cain's time to rule the HW division and it was pointless sticking around in a weightclass he was never going to fight for the title in.
 
In other news, water is wet, ice is cold, grass tends to be green unless it's dead.
 
DC isn't just power and strength. DC can wrestle and Tom isn't really a good wrestler. Tom has a good rugby tackle but I think chain wrestling and scrambling isn't there. DC's earlier stint at HW was a different animal vs towards the end of his career. He wasn't the leanest person but he was more muscular earlier in his career. You can look at pictures of him weighing in at 235 from both points in his career. It's the same weight but visually it is completely different. It's like Mark Kerr at 265 in Pride vs Mark Kerr weighing 265 nowadays.
 
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This well known, only those who feel the need to defend Jon like they are his mom don't know these things.
 
I do not see the problem, he is making it clear that DC would have a strength advantage over him at HW. Jones has always been cerebral with his analyzing of fights and he was being honest about it.

Jones hated DC and made it clear he would rather die than give him any advantage in any way when they were enemies. I do not understand the problem, no fighter would want to give a fighter an advantage over them as it makes no sense. With all things equal, the better fighter wins and jones mentioned that him and DC are equal at LHW and that would determine who was better equally.

I do not get why some of you dickheads in here make big things out of little shit. I see the same shitstains who whine about jones in here all the time. The same dickheads.
 
BFoe said:
Jones ducked HW for a decade while talking a big game, and has done nothing but cherry pick once he got there. This while being 6’4”, 250 lbs, with an 85 inch reach, and a career full of PED failures.
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When was Jones EVER at 250 when he fought at LHW? He got heavier as his career went on, but even then I feel like his in-cage weight was around 225. He was certainly lighter than most of the fighters he went against.
 
Gamer2k4 said:
When was Jones EVER at 250 when he fought at LHW? He got heavier as his career went on, but even then I feel like his in-cage weight was around 225. He was certainly lighter than most of the fighters he went against.
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I was going by his HW weigh-in, but you’re right, I should’ve gone by something closer to his weight then. I think it’d have been realistic for him to add a bit of mass and be 230.
 
don't ask said:
It baffles me that anyone thinks Jones is an "any time, any where" fighter. He needs as many things to be stacked in his favour as possible or he won't take the fight, even when it means bending and breaking the rules.
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Y'all must've forgot.
 
Tweak896 said:
DC could make LHW and that was the weight he fought most fights in UFC. It might have been fun to see the fight at HW, but lets not pretend it's not a way to try and give DC an advantage after losing 2 in a row to Jones.
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It's quite incredible that the normalization of weight cutting has made people so retarded that they can post something like this and be serious about it.

Yes, we are going to give a 5'9 man who has weighed as low as 228 at HW an 'advantage' over a 6'4 man who weighed in at 248 for his HW fight by just having them fight at their natural weights.

Slap some sense into yourself.
 
Dr Fong said:
It's quite incredible that the normalization of weight cutting has made people so retarded that they can post something like this and be serious about it.

Yes, we are going to give a 5'9 man who has weighed as low as 228 at HW an 'advantage' over a 6'4 man who weighed in at 248 for his HW fight by just having them fight at their natural weights.

Slap some sense into yourself.
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The context for Jones saying "he's not giving advantage at HW" was after Jones beat his ass 2x. Jones would beat him at HW as well. Even when Stipe was having his trilogy with DC. I'm sorry but if Stipe could win 2 wars of attrition against DC, Jones would've done it easier and never got caught with that slippery KO DC landed the 1st match against Stipe. The 2 DC/Jones matches were because DC wanted to be LHW champ.
 
Jones was the LHW champ. Why the fuck should he move up just to give another guy an advantage? Especially in wrestling where every pound matters? Literally father's plan khabib shit, cut as much weight as you can and dominate in the wrestling.
I know Jones has some haters but come up with some reasoning that makes sense.
 
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