Jon Jones' UFC career officially over?

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Absolutely not. Jon is about to enter his second prime and could likely school both guys in the same night. Goat gonna Goat…
 
I think we'll see Jon again. It's reasonable to doubt that, because he's been out for so long, but I think he's got a little time left. And it's got to be too hard forever to resist when he can have a free title shot more or less whenever he wants it, at either LHW or HW.
 
How many times have people said 'Jones will be owned by this guy because of X'...... Reality is Jones is a very talented fighter and seems to find a way to compensate for everyone's advantage over him.

He won't take down Cormier... yet he did.
Vitor's arm bar, beat
Strength of X, done
Wrestling of this guy, done
Striking of that guy, done.....

If my lucky rabbits foot works and jones stays clean and healthy he should fight for the HW strap on the July 4th card.....
 
hard to say... the guy still trains and lifts heavy.

maybe he's just waiting for his GSP moment when some dunce gets the strap and he can jump in ? maybe he thinks stipe can get the belt back?
 
Slatersan said:
Jones saw dc beat stipe so he figured he could beat him even easier. Now that francis is champ jones isnt going to bother with it. If Gane wins same thing.
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Jones said he wouldn't fight DC at HW because that'll be giving DC an advantage so I disagree with Jones eyeballing folk based on what DC did at HW. Jones isn't Godzilla which is proven especially without his special sauce so don't know why folk have more confidence in him then the man does himself.
 
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His next fight is going to be resisting arrest after running over a nun while high.
 
Jorge Luis Borges said:
I think we'll see Jon again. It's reasonable to doubt that, because he's been out for so long, but I think he's got a little time left. And it's got to be too hard forever to resist when he can have a free title shot more or less whenever he wants it, at either LHW or HW.
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Yeah, that's definitely a possibility, going back down. Although I think the longer he is out, the less confident he will be about it, and Jon's greatest weapon is his confidence--and other's fear
 
Captain Herb said:
If Gane takes apart Frank--and I believe he will--Jones' UFC career will be officially over imo. Before you start saying 'I knew he wasn't coming back anyway', yeah, I know, I was probably saying that before you, but there was still that 0.5% chance that he might surprise everyone and make good on his word to fight Francis for the belt. At least with Ngannou, he has a narrow path to victory--run around the cage for a few rounds and hope Francis gasses enough to use some grappling without too much risk. But with Cyril, he has no chance of victory. None. Zero. Gane is proven at heavyweight and matches Jones strength for strength and does it all much better. Even if Jones tried some Hail Mary take downs, he would almost certainly get shrugged off and lit up. There's no way Jon wins that fight, he knows it and it will be the nail in the coffin for his HW "dreams". I predict that shortly after Gane's victory, if that is what happens, he will announce his retirement. After all, he never said he would fight Gane, just Ngannou, so with Francis out of the title picture, it would be a great time to slip out the back door with a least some of his pride still intact.
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please stop.
there asinine posts where you pick one of the most talented fighters and claim he has zero chance of winning...
haters had picked Jon to fail for almost a decade now.
Give it up.


not saying he will dominate... I have no clue. But sure as hell it won't be a huge surprise if he wins. If anything he is more well rounded and battle tested than both Gane and Francis.
Stop with the hate already.
 
Shaddows said:
not saying he will dominate... I have no clue. But sure as hell it won't be a huge surprise if he wins. If anything he is more well rounded and battle tested than both Gane and Francis.
Stop with the hate already.
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Shaddows said:
please stop.
there asinine posts where you pick one of the most talented fighters and claim he has zero chance of winning...
haters had picked Jon to fail for almost a decade now.
Give it up.


not saying he will dominate... I have no clue. But sure as hell it won't be a huge surprise if he wins. If anything he is more well rounded and battle tested than both Gane and Francis.
Stop with the hate already.
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Do you see Reyes smacking up or out pointing Gane? No one on the planet does and we saw what Reyes did to Jones. Yes sometimes you can use MMA math given the fighting styles.

Your boy Mr. Talented Jones will need an entire Mexican pharmacy in his bloodstream to be at his very 'talented' best to stand a chance against Gane.
 
Shaddows said:
not saying he will dominate... I have no clue. But sure as hell it won't be a huge surprise if he wins. If anything he is more well rounded and battle tested than both Gane and Francis.
Stop with the hate already.
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It would surprise the hell out of me if he fought and beat either Gane or Ngannou. If that makes me a hater, then I guess I'm a hater.
 
Kha'bless said:
Do you see Reyes smacking up or out pointing Gane? No one on the planet does and we saw what Reyes did to Jones. Yes sometimes you can use MMA math given the fighting styles.

Your boy Mr. Talented Jones will need an entire Mexican pharmacy in his bloodstream to be at his very 'talented' best to stand a chance against Gane.
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Kid, get one thing straight: Jon BEAT Reyes. Time you accept the truth and be done with it.
Besides, both Francis and Ciryl have completely different style than Reyes.

So you prove NOTHING.

You don't even fucking know how Jon will show up at HW. He may completely change his style and go wrestling heavy. Who the fuck knows?
but one thing is certain. Jon had great gameplan against DC. He BEAT everyone put in front of him, despite all your hate and all your excuses.

Like I said, I don't know if he will win. But to claim he has no chance is beyond asinine.
 
Captain Herb said:
It would surprise the hell out of me if he fought and beat either Gane or Ngannou. If that makes me a hater, then I guess I'm a hater.
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surprise he may.
Matter of fact, I don't think ANYONE can claim one way or another, since no one saw him fight at HW.
But to claim he has no chance? That's just stupid.
You are talking about a fighter that is in 90% of anyone's GOAT Lists for a reason.
 
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