Noone is better than jones. Noone. Its possible noone ever will be.
Its mma and anything can happen on a given night but still... that man is incredible.
I really like aspinall but jones is just another level.
This is what is so frustrating. People criticizing Jones for sitting out Ngannou's run at HW and then swooping in to fight Gane (who was thoroughly out wrestled by Ngannou with two blown out knees) and Stipe (who hasn't fought in four years, is 42 years old and was obliterated when he last fought) aren't saying Jones is any less special than he was 8 years ago, we're saying he's doing the exact opposite of what veterans did for him when he was 23 years old.
If he's on another level from Tom and Francis, why isn't he fighting them? Why did he spend years saying all he had to do was get over the fear of "getting knocked out cold" by Francis to get in the octagon? Why downplay the literal interim champion of your division who has more wins in the division and has spent less time in the cage in his last
7 fights than you did in your most recent fight against a mostly retired firefighter?
Jon is talking about legacy so much that it's actually hurting his legacy now. He made a living beating up small LHW's that were usually much older than him and, when he finally started fighting actual LHW's, he struggled to be as dominant (and lost vs. Reyes).
Jon Jones is a great MMA fighter who has been spoon fed everything in the world by Dana White (venue changes for pissing hot, the ability to pick who and when he fights, even this most recent event went back to the old UFC gloves because Jon didn't like the new ones). He's also a terrible human being outside of the octagon in spite of spending an entire interview ducking the Tom Aspinall question to discuss his love of America and Jesus Christ.
I'm not saying Tom beats Jon, manhandles him or any of the other things a lot of newer UFC fans would say. But I am saying that Jones not fighting Tom is a bigger indictment of Jon than it is of Tom.
