Pretty much agreed. Love him or hate him, Jones adjusts to his opponents extremely well and has solutions in rematches for his difficulties in the initial fights. The same is true for DJ, barring the Cejudo rematch. That also brings up a point though; When you look at DJ's opponents rematches before Cejudo, they were against opponents who were more or less established and didn't have any significant evolution to their game between the fights (McCall, Benavidez, Dodson). Cejudo improved leaps and bounds from the first fight to the second because he was still young in his career and had many improvements to make. This could potentially be applied to Jones' opponents. Gus and DC were more or less done evolving when they first fought Jones (you could say Gus regressed), and I'm not optimistic Santos is going to evolve much further either. But Reyes, he has the potential to experience an evolution on the level of Cejudo, especially since he just had his first real big fight experience against Jones. Lots to learn from there.I dont think Reyes wins the rematch. Go back to Jons two rematches in the UFC. Finished DC in the 3rd, and had his way with Gus before finishing him. Hate the guy all you want, he learns from his mistakes.
If Reyes tries to coast through the first two rounds Jon will start putting it on him. "Clinch and attempt takedowns" you really think trying to Clinch with Jon is the smart thing to do? Brawl in a rock'em sock'em exchange? He already tried that and gassed 2.5 rounds in.
People seem to think Santos and Reyes are going to get rematches and wreck Jon - I see him running through both in a rematch.
The exact same thing as last time, but in a different location with different judges.
I had it 3-2 Reyes.....but told my friends that don't be surprised if Jones gets the nod for them takedowns and finishing stronger in the 5th round. With that said, can Reyes ever get a decision over Jones or will it have to be a clear KO/TKO?
I think in the rematch he needs to do the following:
* Coast through rounds 1 and 2 and save up for the championship rounds
* Clinch and attempt takedowns (even if it doesn't work, judges will see aggression and control attempt)
* Leg kicks, leg kicks, fuckin' leg kicks
* fuck it, go brawl out and rock em sock em exchange
I'm taking Reyes in the rematch...
Rephrase?Weird how often fighters beat themselves against Gus. Gus, DC, Smith...they just cant get out of their own way.