If he beats DC? DC was a destroyer at HW, so if Jones beats DC, doesn't it prove he can deal with strength and power of a HW fighter?
dc had a size disadvantage against most heavies, plus cain is his friend and training partner, therefore he dropped? no im not joking. beating a 205'er means you beat a 205er lol
If he beats DC with ease he may as well take the pay day with Cain because I honestly think Cormier would beat Velasquez
MMAMath is bad for you. Jones beating DC tells us nothing about how he would do against larger heavyweights. Should we assume Hendo could have ruled the Pride HW division because he TKO'd Fedor? Should we assume Ryo Chonan could have tooled Forrest Griffin because he submitted Anderson Silva? Doesn't work that way. If Jones beats DC (which I doubt he can), it only proves he can beat DC. If he wants to prove himself at heavyweight, he needs to fight heavyweights.
He doesn't have to prove anything, anywhere, IMO. He's a LHW and he has the right to stay there. It isn't his fault that no one there can push him, aside from Gus and maybe a few other guys on a good night.
You're being dishonest. In your first post you said "DC dropped because of disadvantages". He didn't. He dropped because he wouldn't fight Cain, and obviously cause he feels he has a chance of being lhw champ.
You're comparing completely different situations, and it's not about mma math at all. There's this idea about Jones not being able to handle HWs because of the supposed strength and power disparity. Mma math applies primarily styles matchups, which is not the premise of this thread.
Including throwing around a 250 pound world class grappler, Josh Barnett, as if he was taking out the trash. Nobody else has ever done that to Barnett.
But that, surely, wasn't the reason he dropped down. Had Cain not been hw champ, he would have stayed at hw. That, and the opportunity to dethrone the #1 p4p fighter, Jones. The latter being, obviously, the reason why DC is calling Jones out and going "you have to fight ME! before Gus". DC obviously wants to be the one to dethrone Jones. If Gus was to beat Jones, DC beating Gus would be a great accomplishment - but not as big as him dethroning Jones. Which is why DC sounds kinda desperate.
