I get the logic of Jones waiting for stipe.
I dislike Jones as much as the next guy, but it we are all fair about this I'm sure most of us would be in the same boat.
Imagine being arguably the best fighter on the planet and having just put a serious feather in your cap by moving to hw and winning. Yoube been grinding away for decades getting better, always managing to win, always with a target ln your back.Your next fight is either against a guy nobody thinks is an all time great who happens to be probably in his athletic prime and who is fresh off a big win OR you could fight a guy who is said to be the greatest hw ever, who is not in his athletic prime and who lost his last fight by knockout.
Pretty fucking tempting.
If Jones does both, though... ices pav and then crushes stipe after...
God damn, that's a GOAT status claim that is hard to imagine anyone ever topping.