Who had a memorable 2nd weight class title run: Jon or Conor?

[Snake Fist]

On paper, Conor had a fight with Eddie, Jones vs Gane was a mismatch before it even transpired.

Jones/Stipe another mismatch on paper, that should have never went down after the injury delay.

Both runs were stinkers, but you gotta give Conor some props for even taking the Khabib fight, and in doing so we all witnessed a match and some heavy karma.

 

[FreddieRoachsVoice]

More memorable? Well considering it took Jones 3 years to actually fight at HW and then almost another 2 years to fight again (against a guy who was already retired), is this really a debate? lol

Conor throwing a trolley at a bus was more memorable than Jones' last 8 years in the company. There was also 4 of the highest drawing fights in history crammed in there (including one against Mayweather) while Jones cherry picked some gatekeepers while being semi-retired so yeah... not much of a comparison here.

Despite his earlier dominance, Jones was NEVER the PPV draw he was expected to be. Never cracked a million buys even once, his only well drawing cards were "grudge matches", and really he's been so unimpressive over the last decade that I think there's an entire generation of fans who probably haven't even seen his early LHW fights don't even care about him

 

[HHJ]

Conor's definitely was more memorable, it actually led to the biggest fight of all time, in his attempt to get it back.

 

[Aurelian]

People talk about Jones waiting out his reign but didn't Conor sit on the belt for two years until he was stripped?

 

[Aluminati]

GSP

 

[ThaiSexPills]

Jones easily. Conor didn't even defend

Jon didn’t either. He got one exhibition fight and ran away from the division (and the scene of another accident).

Conor ducked nobody.

 

[sonhow]

Conor fought Khabeeb. Khabeeb was good.

Conor wins

 

[Deleted member 517683]

As much as I hate it but I have to go with Conor here. And only because of "memorable".

Doesn´t change the fact that you could put both in a sack and punching that sack like crazy. You never hit the wrong guy...

 

[snugglecakes]

everything about jon's whole career is memorable for all the wrong reasons. I dont care how many wins he racked up against bloated middleweights. To me he has a legacy of cheating and elder abuse

 

[Nobru]

Run? Conor had one step. One fight. Jones had two, both cherrypicked. Pathetic.

 

[Tweak896]

Jon didn’t either. He got one exhibition fight and ran away from the division (and the scene of another accident).

Conor ducked nobody.

Ehhh, I feel like UFC wanted someone from UFC to have Ngannou's recent wins, to delegitimize Ngannou's resume. Hence why Jones took Gane and Stipe. It's strange how Stipe counts for Ngannou while he was champ, but his next fight was supposed to be 2 years later and it's considered a complete exhibition. I get it was 3 years later because Jones injury. Still both Jones and Stipe had similar mileage at that point.

 

[usernamee]

Run? Conor had one step. One fight. Jones had two, both cherrypicked. Pathetic.

Cherrypicked? Who should he have fought? Gane was ranked no1. I believe under him you had at the time

Pavlovich
Stipe
Blaydes
Aspinall comes in at around spot 5 or so

 

[haj02]

Jon won two fights but cherry picked and ducked. Conor went 1-3, but at least he fought the toughest guys.

1-3 is nothing to do with his title reign. The title said weight class title run. He objectively had one fight where he won the title and never defended it. Jon defended his.

 

[World eater]

Both were memorable, but not for good reasons.

 

[loisestrad]

Jones was nearing the end of his carreer when he took on Gane, who at the time was the #1 hw, as Ngannou had left. Jones beat him in a real impressive way.

Connor was equally as impressive vs Alvarez, but Conor was still considered a fighter on the rise, not even in his prime.

Which is probably why Conor went on to fight Khabib. At the time Conor was still hungry as fuck or at least like the wolf, whereas Jones was satisfied by defending his title vs the GOAT UFC HW, Stipe.

What's more impressive? Conor losing vs the stronger guy with the less impressive resume, or Jones beating the (at the time) weaker guy with the more impressive resume?

I say it's pretty much equal.

 

[markg171]

Saying Gane was a stylistic matchup but Eddie wasn't rather gives the game away guys

 

[jsbx45]

To be fair, both were pretty weak. Pretty down on both individuals right now too. Too bad these guys are part of the public face of the MMA community.

 

[Gamer2k4]

jones fought a cherry-picked tailor-made striker, and then a senior citizen, and then fled. you really can't even call that a 'run'. unless you mean in the forrest gump sense.

When polled before the fight, more people here thought Gane was going to win than Jones. He was the #1 HW in the UFC at the time. It's only in hindsight that "Gane was the easiest fight Jones could have taken."

 

[VAfan]

When polled before the fight, more people here thought Gane was going to win than Jones. He was the #1 HW in the UFC at the time. It's only in hindsight that "Gane was the easiest fight Jones could have taken."

that only meant that people didn't think he'd be able to hold up to the division in general. if they'd put him against someone else, the poll might have been even more dramatic. gane was one of the only top ten guys he could have taken down and a lot of people knew it. they just weren't sure he could handle the heavier weight class.

 

[Mickey Mick]

Both are more or less footnotes and afterthoughts to me.