I think most fighters have that doubt.
But really this is about how he wants to be seen after he retires, and he doesn’t want the last thing in his career to be losing the belt. He wants to retire as champ.
Jones wrestlefucks Aspinall to a decision if he can’t beat him on his feet. The gap as far as wrestling goes between American and non-American fighters usually is just too big too overcome. He’s too good to get caught. I just think he wants that major payday. Aspinall isn’t probably the right one for the UFC to give him that.
I don’t think there is a bigger fight that can be made in UFC right now outside of maybe Ilia v. Islam (which is obviously not happening now). I don’t think there is a bigger money fight in UFC for Jon Jones and the only fight that draws more for Jones would have been Ngannou and he absolutely avoided that fight too with his mythical three year bulk lol.
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I’m sure he has doubts as any fighter does to some degree but Jones is better than Aspinall at everything except being younger.
Jones is obviously a terrible human being and tbh that is part of why he is the best fighter of all time. He has that element of just being a straight up cunt human being to go with elite skills in every area and the perfect MMA physique.
I think Jones as a person certainly takes away from Jones as a fighter but when looking at him purely as a fighter, there is no-one better.
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No doubt he’s in any discussion of greatest combat sport athlete of all time. I don’t even hold the drug tests against him too tough because I think everyone is juicing if I’m honest with you.
I just hate the way he’s handled the move to the heavyweight division
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I remember Sonnen being interviewed about losing to Jones and Jones being on steroids at that time, and Sonnen saying something about the fact that he was also juicing just like Jones, with some sort of quip about Tropicana lol
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That definitely used to be the case. You only had to look at Brock Lesner being juiced to the gills.
But that changed when USADA and subsequently CSAD took over the anti-doping within the UFC.
TRT Belfort was a monster.
Johny Hendricks another.
Both not the same after the clampdown.
Just need to ban weight cutting now, and force fighters to fight at their natural weight.
What’s your opposition to it?
Not everyone cuts weight in order to hit a threshold. For some fighters it’s easy to cut, and for others it’s incredibly dangerous.
So those that do cut get a distinct advantage because by the time the fight night comes about they’ve put all that weight back on, and at that point wouldn’t qualify for the division they are fighting in.
I’d make fighters do the weigh in on the morning of the fight.
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Completely agree
Maybe you (since I know you’re into your fitness) or @Bavin can explain why this disparity in the ability to cut weight exists.
Is it as simple as genetics? Because someone like Conor, who walks around naturally at around 170Ibs, can cut so much that he qualifies for the Featherweight division which maxes at 145Ibs.
Not sure why some can and others can’t but Paddy Pimblet released a video vlogging his weight cut https://youtu.be/yf-h7BjD-WI?si=WbJjcq7PhXbY416n
he goes from like 190 to 170 in build up and then in 48 hours from 170 to 156 to make the weigh in…
Maybe I’m forgetting some obvious people but I feel like most of Americas contenders at the moment are strikers and they actually are the ones getting wrestlefucked?
I love DC
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I always wonder how much DC could have done if he could have made middleweight. He’s only like 5ft 10 lol the guy could have dominated middleweight as well as being a champ at 205 and heavyweight.
Crazy to think he only started training striking at 30.
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I remember seeing a video of him doing some crazy athletic back flips but starting from a seated position and just exploding off the ground. At that kind of weight to have that kind of explosiveness I wonder how much crazier it’d have been with less of the weight
Some people just have the most insane genetics they’re built to be the best at things.
Seeing him lean at middleweight would have been weird. Wonder if he would have been the same kind of fighter getting down in weight like that. Agree though I do think he’d have dominated at MW.
Edit: found it
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I’d want something like the opposite: you need to hit weight one week before a fight and then every morning for 7 days leading up to the fight.
Would never happen for several reasons but in theory it could make fighters fight at managable weights. I mean in theory, not in reality.
I reckon his wrestling would have been almost enough by itself at MW. His striking was always sneakily good, he knew how to use his frame and physique and he was one of the best clinch/dirty boxers in his day.
In a world without Jones, and where Cormier started MMA younger, the possibilities for DC would have been endless.
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