i can't see someone that loses to izzy ever standing a chance against the GOAT LHW....poatan's accomplishments are way too fucking narrow to be making comparisons to jones, who has plowed through generations of fighters for god damn near 15 yrs.
I agree with you generally, But when you look at what jones has a problem with like santos, Gus, and reyes, they are all big tall strikers that use length. That's all im trying to say. I dont mean to say he'd win certainly but he does have strengths where jones has weakness.
Ryan Spann knocked out Reyes with a jab, and Reyes beat Jones for 3 rounds.
Jones is also one of the worst boxers at either division. He's really good at managing distance and mixing kicks in, so it means fuck-all in the end.
but we're not talking about Poatans accomplishments vs jones Accomplishments, We're talking about how their skill sets match up.
I suppose...maybe I just see Jones as quite literally unbeatable at LHW, I think my point is that we have seen jones handle elite strikers more often than we have seen poatan deal with elite grapplers. so i suppose time will tell.
it is somewhat important, if one has a greater variety wins over another, its hard to scale which one is better even hypothetically.
He bodied gus in the rematch so jones could adapt? but also saying alex can beat all of those guys seems pretty presumptuous. i get that gane looked like light work in the jones match but the guy is probably third best in the HW division, he was able to survive a 5 round match with Francis. Moreover, Pereira has quite literally 0 experience in HW combat, I think he even lingered at MW in Glory. His length isn't unusual in those heftier weight classes too.
I can come around to agreeing with this, but I want to mention the rematch between jones and Gus is even more damning. Jones beat Gus almost entirely with leg kicks. I can’t see Alex not being able to do something similar.
Me too!!!!
I think Hill is a bit overrated but only a little bit. I think he'd lose to rakic and jiri pretty easy. Jan might be on his way out with injuries, so maybe hill gets past that.
