Topic: Top Light Heavies - 205 lbs.
Jones
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01.02.2019 | 1:11 PM ET
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01.02.2019 | 1:16 PM ET
205 pound TJ Thrillashaw KO's Jones
205 Holloway retires Jones
Hell Jones couldn't beat Cejudo
01.02.2019 | 1:35 PM ET
"This is Prize-Fighting, IDGAF about your family or your problems - MassaBruce"
01.02.2019 | 6:01 PM ET
01.02.2019 | 6:42 PM ET
And I also agree that any of those guys Bruce mentioned would beat Jones if they were the same weight. Jones is intelligent, but a lot of why he's so good is that he's a physical freak of nature. LHW has been a puddle for a long time. Other than DC there really hasn't been another amazing fighter to challenge Jones, and Jones is just straight up very very hard for DC to overcome given his insane reach.
I think the person to beat Jones will be a bodyline fighter with excellent boxing/pocket striking, It's actually really obvious to me how to fight jones, and that's to fight him in side-stance. or in close. I have no idea why everyone seems to want to fight him square at his optimal distance.... he'll just oblique the living ****/spinning elbow the **** out you. Jones couldn't punch his way out of a spiderweb, and his boxing sucks.Long arms are an advantage at range and a disadvantage in close. That's why DC was beating him in the phone booth. I think Walker has a decent shot of beating Jones down the track. Big power in small spaces. That is assuming he doesn't get taken down.
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01.02.2019 | 7:25 PM ET
Then when your locked in a cage with him, you gotta bite down on your mouthpiece and swing away. If you take a step back, you lose.
Its really that simple. Hatred & pressure beats men like Jones.
01.02.2019 | 7:32 PM ET
"This is Prize-Fighting, IDGAF about your family or your problems - MassaBruce"
01.02.2019 | 7:32 PM ET
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01.02.2019 | 7:35 PM ET
There's nothing in his arsenal that basically every other MMA can't do. It's just that when you have arms longer than a Buick a spinning elbow or a superman punch becomes an entirely different deal.
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01.02.2019 | 7:37 PM ET
01.02.2019 | 7:48 PM ET
I've seen TJ clown high-level fighters using every martial art available and when he beats Cejudo, Killashaw is P4P
Khabib could roll out of bed in the morning and pin Cael Sanderson in his prime. He'd have no problem exposing the weakness of longer limbs in grappling. Great for leverage but with length comes weak spots.
If Jones was 145 pounds I see Holloway peppering his face with those incredible shots for 25 minutes with relative ease.
It goes back to what Cruz kept muttering all weekend, some guys are really good at being the hammer, only some are good at being the nail. Vitor couldn't SUB a grandma with his TRT and almost caught Jones....
Pressure makes Diamonds. If you have a stove or even a microwave and some baking soda you can make a Jon Jones. Its called crack.
01.02.2019 | 8:04 PM ET
TJ is a beast. You don't beat linker, Garbrandt twice, as well as assuncao unless you're truly elite. But I couldn't give him P4P 1 ranking, even for beating Cejudo. Pretty great ******* scalp, but he lost his belt to Cruz two years ago, which sucked because frankly I hate Cruz's monkey-strafing pitter-patter decision ******** style of fighting.
01.03.2019 | 5:32 PM ET
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