First of all, have you ever seen Jon's faced sucked in at weigh ins, him using a towel or having any sign he has difficuly cutting? No. Because he ain't that big. He has very big upper body, but his legs are super skinny. That is the illusion of him being giant LHW. He has upperbody of a heavyweight and lower body of a welterweight.
245... ? Yeah, about that. If you believe this shit I don't know what to tell you
He is not even close to 245. The only time that he weighted that much was when he actively weighlifted and has become absolutely enormous. Before the OSP fight. And was 240, not 245.
Jones is perfectly sized for 205. His weight in cage for the Gustafson fight was 222lbs. And I won't give you link to that, because you didn't give me link to where Jon said for the 245lbs. and I had to search for it.
Bottom line - you didn't do your homework, Jon is normal sized LHW and there is a lot of available data about that, but you didn't looked for it,
you looked for only what suits your opinion and you just talk out your ass.
Cutting weight has nothing to do to facing
or avoiding better competition. I don't know how in the hell you are mixing these things???
Everybody cuts weight. And the people who don't are willingly
handicapping themselves.
You don't cut weight to avoid or seek any competition. You cut weigh to not suffer big size disadvantage. Big size distadvantage is just fucking unfair and gets peope careers cut short. Because when you have relatitvely similar skills with the opponent, a 15-25lbs of not just bodymass, but active musclemass and bigger bonestructure is a huge, huuge edge. Bigger guys are hitting harder, can take harder hits, have bigger reach, more strenght... I don't need to countinue.