Whose belt win and first defense were against lighter, lower-class opponents: Khabib vs DC vs Jones?

[Gregoire1]

whose belt wins and first defense were against lighter, lower-class opponents:

Khabib at LW - Al + Conor (basically 2 gatekeepers)

DC at HW - post-prime Stipe + Lewis

Jones at HW - Gane + washed Stipe

compare them!

 

[El Diego]

DC KOing Stipe is the most impressive win on paper, but because he had to rake his eyes to win I don't think highly of it.

Jones is easily the least impressive of the 3 tho

 

[RockyLockridge]

Jones easily number 1 on this list, simply for his win against gane who WAS a legit number 1 contender at the time of this fight. Simply doesn't belong in this discussion because Gane is not "a lower class win"

DC's would be close number 2, As stipe was a good win, but His horrible intentional Eyepoke before the KO taints it. Lewis is a soild win

Khabib would have to be third for no fault of his own he had to fight Raging Al in a title fight. Then Conor, while fair and sensible matchmaking, conor had gone over the hill after the mayweather fight (which could not be known to anyone at the time)