Gane choked
Now imagine what Aspinall would do with guys like Thiago Santos, Reyes, Smith, OSP, etc.
Tom fought everyone that Jon has ducked, beating them in the 1st round...except Jon's babymama (that Jon beat bloody & convincingly).
If Jon Jones is fighting then people will watch. That's a fact. You can hate him or love him, but you will watch him fight either way.
Doubt any of them see the 2nd minute against Aspinall, forget the 2nd round.
This is a troll right?
That's the thing, if Jon fought Tom, win or lose, the Stipe fight would have been cheered as "one last hurrah" and it being delayed wouldn't hold up the careers of 50 men by holding the belt hostage. Too bad Jon's Jon.
Nope.
Gane does not have the grappling of Tom, he doesn't have the power neither and explosiveness. Tom is a MUCH harder match up for Jon than Gane and even Francis for that matter. Jon only fights who he thinks he can beat, and if he thought Tom would be easy as Gane is he would have taken the fight..
Gane had a year to come up with some serviceable TDD which is all he would have needed to keep the fight standing where he had an overwhelming advantage but Gane hates the grappling aspect of MMA, in fact he doesn't even like MMA and just does it because he's a naturally talented striker and that's where the money is. He has no interest in expanding his game. But with that all said, he still should have been able to make it more of a fight than he did but he insisted on giving Jon golden entry opportunities with his lazy punches and no distance management. He must have known that it was the last thing he should do but he did it anyway. He choked.
You see the period before that sentence ? And the one at the end? It's a different statement .
