That tripping game is not going to be so easy when you have a guy that close that can knock you out as soon as he lands. HW is a total different ball game. Fights end quick. Knockouts are more of a certainty than LHW. Jones success relies on his physical attributes and skill-set.
LHW rely on more skill than power/strength. Jones has great skills but nothing out of the ordinary but its enough added with his extraordinary physical attributes that he uses to it full potential. This makes him very hard to beat in LHW. In the HW division guys generally hit hard, use less fancy stuff because it will get you knocked out. Jones throws a knee strike one of those guys will walk through it with a huge looping cross that will put him to the other side of the octagon.
You say, they use less fancy Stuff
You mean Jones fancy freestyle wrestling, its grappling technique that many of the HW's dont have. Many of the HW's will have a very hard time dealing with Jones inside the clinch regardless of their punching power. They dont have the skill to grapple with Jones outside of the elite wrestlers like Cormier and Cain in the division and that is a given.
Its possible Jones can get knocked out but that is a forgone conclusion at LHW if anyone hits properly. If Rampage hits jones properly they can put him out as can Tehunna, Hendo, Texeira and a slew of other LHW's who hit just as hard as the HW fighters but have more athleticism, are faster and are more mobile.
Jones physical attributes are utilized more when he strikes which is his secondary skill set not his first, Jones first skill set is Wrestling and it is indeed something HW's without that background will have issues with.
If jones just wrestled in all of his fights he would be more dominant then using his secondary and pretty unrefined boxing.
What the HW's gain in power and weight they lose in speed, athleticism, well-roundedness and mobility. HW's are also much slower then the LHW's and that will play a factor in many of those fights. Closing the distance with the HW fighters may be harder then the LHW's who actually have the speed, skill and athleticism to cut into jones reach.
Also, no one at HW is going to walk through an oblique kick, those kicks targeting the knee will tear through a fighters knees regardless of how big you think they are, its patently ridiculous.
We will see what happens when he goes up.
