I honestly tried to write some sort of defense… but you know what? Cheating on your wife when she is pregnant with your twins earns you whatever hate comes your way.
After Jon Jones’s latest narrow title win, it’s time to risk it all at heavyweight
Jones has made a career of beating smaller opponents. There are few guys on his resume who are about the same size as he is and they have given him a lot of trouble:
Gus (first fight, before getting starched by Johnson) OSP (Jones should have wrecked OSP skill-wise, but it turned into a strangely competitive fight)
Bader (Jones didn’t have trouble, but Bader was quite green back then)
Reyes (Jones objectively lost 3 rounds out of 5)
Everyone else on his record has been quite undersized.
Going up to HW and fighting guys the same size as he is spells trouble for Jones. Jones has proven he can take punches from Reyes, but he was getting hit quite a bit and I wonder how his chin would hold with a guy like Ngannou.