UFC on Versus 2 Post-Fight: Jon Jones Wants to Face a Top Contender... or James Toney

Rua, Machida or Anderson would be great fights, and some Jones might well lose.

But Rampage should not be listed in with those guys, or with any group of guys with a good chance against Jones.

Rampage, Franklin, Griffin, Couture, Liddell or any of the other “name” fighters just below the elites would get ruined by Jones, aside from the ever-present “puncher’s chance”.

Nog Lite or Thiago Silva would be decent next fights if none of the “name” guys are available, willing and able.

Jones is going to find himself stuck in the Machida category where no one wants to fight him – too much risk of losing for such a limited upside since the majority of fans would consider a Jones victory as an upset (LMFAO) against the “name” guys.

Rampage’s boxing is really only strong in close; I feel Jones could use his range and speed to hurt Jackson from the outside without being exposed to the devastating short hooks, somewhat similar to one part of Rashad’s gameplan but with more reach.

At the same time, Jones could easily make a mistake leaving him too close while striking, and he doesn’t have a shot like Rashad’s, his takedowns mostly come from the clinch. Also, Jones has a more active top game, and it’d be interesting to see Jackson’s defense on the ground if it gets there. It’d be interesting to see how that fight would play out and compare to Evans-Jackson.

Its still over-rated IMO…he has all of 4 flash KOs, and one of those came via head-butt + slam.

Rampage, like most other top LHWs aside from Rua, Anderson and Machida, is just way too slow for Jones.

Between Jones’ speed, quickness, length, strength and wide variety of techniques to draw from, Rampage’s plodding one-dimensional style would be exposed like Anderson – Griffin, or Jones – Maty…

I actually hope against hope for that fight, because hopefully the Rampage fanboys would bet heavily on him, maybe keeping the odds under -350 for Jones.

and he needs a top guy. I said it before this fight, I would pick him to win against every single guy in the LHW division, including shogun and machida. He is too fast, too athletic, already technical and getting moreso by the month. He would be able to take down machida and shogun with little problem and maul them on the ground. I think that Evans poses his biggest challenge stylistically, but that aint gonna happen.

But no safe, practical way to make it happen – weight cutting is just too deeply ingrained in the sporting world.

It would have to have widespread support among the various ACs and, to do it safely, have a series of weigh-ins over the 7, 10 or even 14 days before the fight.

It would totally change the landscape, that’s for sure.

And we would get to see who the 185er is – Anderson or GSP.