Media Jones looking terrible. Old, out of shape and slow.

[Neck&Neck]

Biggest fight in history !
2 part time, one foot out the door fighters will do battle for all the glory of the prestigious and glamourous UFC Heavyweight division !

 

[Striker Fox]

Some actually believe he's still better P4P than Islam and Topuria here in 2024

 

[Adamant]

Stipe by KO

I mean, do you think he is training at 100% full speed here?

 

[Adamant]

Some actually believe he's still better P4P than Islam and Topuria here in 2024

There's no question Jones is out of his prime now. But if we take Jones at the peak of his prime, I would absolutely put him above Islam, Topuria, and Khabib at the peak of theirs.

 

[g*r*b]

You Jon haters are setting yourselves for the biggest disappointment making threads like this. Stipe is a decrepit 42 year old who just admitted to Ariel that he has been firefighting full time these past 2 and a half years.

Jon is finishing him in any round and anyway he wants.

So he's a fulltime firefighter while being "decrepit"? How is he passing the physicals then?

 

[g*r*b]

Making judgements from snippets of training video is useless 98% of the time. Especially when it comes to assessing speed. You don't know what the context is, and the likelihood of it being sparring at 100% this close to the fight is almost nil.

 

[SamuraiBro]

People were posting photos of Jones looking ‘jacked’ a couple of weeks ago. What happened to his abs, why he chonk again?

 

[Striker Fox]

When you say “looks terrible”, I expect terrible. That was nothing.

He looks fat, slow, stiff and sloppy like he did before he took Gane down. Stipe probably looks worse though.

 

[frederick]

Nothing can be gleaned from a very slow and casual spar.

 

[bjjwar]

Stipe by KO

Have you seen Stipe’s 5sec training session? Dude is injured and can barely move lol

 

[Iroh]

There's no question Jones is out of his prime now. But if we take Jones at the peak of his prime, I would absolutely put him above Islam, Topuria, and Khabib at the peak of theirs.

We don't know yet what Topurias peak will be. If we're doing the time travel thing..

 

[JustBreed]

He looks good. He's a fucking heavyweight and seemed to be moving pretty well to me

 

[Luffy]

He was also looking terrible vs Gane... Still defeated the then #1 HW contender in the first round. He also looked terrible vs DC 1 since he sniffed coke a week before... Still beat him.

 

[kingofthecans]

Cool..... slap fighting.....

 

[OldBoy91]

He was also looking terrible vs Gane... Still defeated the then #1 HW contender in the first round. He also looked terrible vs DC 1 since he sniffed coke a week before... Still beat him.

He looked great against DC both times. DC was just good enough to hang with him for long stretches.

When you said he looked terrible I thought you were going to say OSP or Santos or Reyes.

 

[NenadRS]

I think Jones made a mistake, he would do better at HW with his LHW form - this 3 year bulking is nonsense, he was ok as he was. He was 220-225 or so at LHW. And that is with strict weight/fat cutting. That is very close to Stipe weight (235). So just mild bulk, no weight cutting, Jones would be 235 for sure. He does not need 250lb, less cardio, less speed.

 

[Luffy]

He looked great against DC both times. DC was just good enough to hang with him for long stretches.

When you said he looked terrible I thought you were going to say OSP or Santos or Reyes.

Well, I'm saying he was as good vs DC as he is now. If he's considered bad now, then he was vs DC too...

 

[Versez]

You Jon haters are setting yourselves for the biggest disappointment making threads like this. Stipe is a decrepit 42 year old who just admitted to Ariel that he has been firefighting full time these past 2 and a half years.

Jon is finishing him in any round and anyway he wants.

is it true ? if yes, its gonna be a quick wrap.

 

[jooohnmatrix]

He looks a little bloated, maybe he’s having his period.

 

[Luffy]

I think Jones made a mistake, he would do better at HW with his LHW form - this 3 year bulking is nonsense, he was ok as he was. He was 220-225 or so at LHW. And that is with strict weight/fat cutting. That is very close to Stipe weight (235). So just mild bulk, no weight cutting, Jones would be 235 for sure. He does not need 250lb, less cardio, less speed.

We have barely seen this version of JJ fighting tho... What we have seen is an inactive fight vs Gane on the feet where JJ actually tagged Gane twice while Gane was getting pressured in the cage the entire time... The moment Gane tried to throw a punch, JJ easily dodged it and finished it on the ground... Besides the dominant win, we can't say he made a mistake because... What we have rn is a dominant win against someone who is better than Dominick Reyes for example.