JJ maybe needs a lil more pop in his stand up strikes but that will come with age/experiance. But he's a beast almost evrywhere else (clinch/ground/takedowns) His worst enemy now is believing his own hype like Vera
The seems humble with a good head on his shoulders. That elbow was nasty too. I'm def interested to see where he goes.
Awesome fighter. Cut from the new dynamic and athletic breed - Silva, GSP, Penn etc He is defintely the real deal. He dominated Hamill and Vera like they stole something from him. He's probably had harder spars. 205 is silly stacked.
He has a HW frame at LHW. I wasn't that impressed with him. He is young and will def improve, but nothing spectacular last night. Hopefully he starts to fight some better LHW's. Vera is barely a gatekeeper.
I hope he gets couple of more fights on the level of Vera before throwing him with the big dogs like Shogun or Machida.
If I was the UFC I'd have Jones be Toney's first opponent. Do a catchweight bout if Toney doesn't want to get down to 205 lbs.