Look dimwit UFC is not fighting it's entertainment that's the era we're currently in right now, Jones is the most privileged and protected fighter in the history of mma/nhb the UFC covered for him testing positive they literally will change venues for their events to protect him from the NSAC, secondly he's received gift decisions on a few occasions and many people would agree with and they did especially right after the Gus fight people were saying Jones got beat, thirdly IDGAF what his record says the rankings and records/scoring is corrupt fukking bullshit I can't even begin to count the amount of foul decisions I've seen in modern UFC it's staggering but all the retarded modern fans don't care about the integrity they just accept whatever bullshit is given to them losers.
I get UFC events for free and guess what I skip so many of them because they fukking suck ass and are boring, I've lost all respect for that organization after turning into WWE 2.0 I have no interest it's a joke the fights generally suck the false drama and storylines are lame and pathetic it's not authentic anymore, I barely follow it as it caters to young modern fans who are dumb and the masses of normies who pay attention just because their normie friends talk about UFC. Fuck the UFC and their fake cheat of a HW champ 3 time PED user lame who needs to be gifted decisions and given 6 month's to prepare for Aspinall because he's a cheat and that's the only way he has a chance to win PATHETIC, sad for Tom Aspinall as he's getting fukked over because of spineless Dana and POS Jones he should do what Francis did and leave degenerate UFC.
Well, he wasn't gifted decisions. Gustafsson in the podcast later said that, after the fight, he didn't know whether he won or lost. He said he remembered the fight, but it was just so close, that he couldn't tell. Reyes recently reframed his "I beat JJ" to "I got very close to beating the best ever"... And they have all similar patterns. Start strong in round 1, 2... And then in round 3, we can see it's really close to the point it is very valid to see JJ as winning those rounds. Reyes landed 25 vs 20 significant strikes, but the UFC rules never specified the sheer advantage of significant strikes alone is what counts. They value a lot the impact those strikes have, i.e, impact > volume. And it is visible that whenever Jon Jones got his significant strikes, the impact on Reyes was more visible — taking a deep breath, slowing down as the round would go, being more often thrown off balance.
JJ wasn't gifted, he earned those wins with mid fight adaptability, toughness, grid, and a huge willingness to win and remain strong on the pressure, not showing once signs of being rocked or slowing down the gas pedal. His only loss was a DQ loss... As of now, he was never beat in a fight. Like, that's official. No way around this. That's like saying DDP has a loss because Sean has an argument to have won the first fight. It doesn't work like that. The fights are close to the point that it's up form interpretation, 100%, and imo when we have 2 clear Reyes rounds (2nd was kinda close tho), and 2 clear one for JJ... And a swing one, that being round 3, no one can say it's a gifted decision. If anything, the swing round that is tough to know for sure who won (only if it were a clear dominant round, except it was very close), the one who keeps the pace and clearly wins the last two rounds is the more deserving one. Reyes was on shaky legs at the final moments of round 4... After a left uppercut in the final seconds, Reyes was circling out visibly wobbled and in trouble.
And in the last round, he was even pushing JJ away and looking at the clock, trying to survive. That's what makes a champion, to turn the tides up to have a very competitive essential round, round 3, a close call and to show dominance in the last two. And it can't be denied that round 3 was very close. Like, it was pretty much as close as the third round of Alex vs Ankalaev, they had some similar patterns — Alex outstriking in significant strike, but Big Ank pulling slightly ahead due to more impact and a bigger pressure in marching forwards.