To me, it seems like silly season on here at the moment, where Jon Jones outpoints Stephan Bonnar, beats up a group of borderline top 10-20 lightheavyweights, submits the unproven Ryan Bader, and now is a complete certainty to walk through Shogun Rua, Anderson Silva, and anyone and everyone else in his weight range. So let's see how far this goes then, who'd back him to beat Fedor or Overeem right now? Bones is enormous for a lightheavy, is nearly as tall and long as Overeem, and much taller and longer than Fedor. Thoughts on this latest hypothetical for Bones? :bbb
NEGATIVE 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%%% Stop all these hypes. Jones is a good fighter but he needs to stay @ light heavyweight. Fedor will kill him and overeem will break him in half.
I wouldn't favor him over either. No one knows how good Jones is, or how good he is yet going to be, but he is clearly very very good and is only getting better and more impressive. Jon Jones COULD be the greatest of all time (read "could" as in the future tense). We will have to just wait and see. I'll say this though, if he runs right over Shogun like he has been running over the lesser competition, it will say quite a bit.
Not now but in the future? It depends, Id like to see him fill out and reach 80% of his potential (he may or may not) but its hard to say because this kid has barely scratched the surface of what he can be. Same thing with Overeem 5 years ago. Seriously who would have thought that he would turn out to be (perhaps) the scariest HW ever.
jones could not fedor who is a freestyler himself. difference is fedor freestyles as a result of continously wanting to cause damage and finish the fight. overeem is simply a monster - too big, too strong, too powerful and he'd absolutey decimate jones standing. pray that jones doesn't eat a knee on his way to a td or god forbid his neck gets caught!