Jon Jones' Fight Frequency and Its Impact on Legacy

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00:00something that you said about inactivity to me and that's the knock on john jones if we want to

00:06talk about john jones from a fighting perspective yeah he's the best right you know he hasn't lost

00:10you know he's had some close fights forgetting you know the hamill disqualification etc

00:14but it's easier not to lose if you only fight every two three years like you know i'm saying

00:21yeah yeah exactly like george st pierre like you know used to fight every three months every six

00:27months next man up they know used to just sort of be next man up and they didn't play games

00:32and it'd be like all right yeah yeah this is the next toughest guy i'm gonna fight him and i want

00:36to get paid so let's do it now it's like well i'm the champion and i'm gonna try to hang on to this

00:41belt and stay in my house and not fight for as long as you know i can to try to hang on to this

00:47yeah no and the other thing that that's stalling divisions as well how many times now we're hearing

00:52about champions wanting to move up a weight class or fight for another belt that unfortunately was

00:56because of conor mcgregor and you're seeing fighters going i can make more money if i move

00:59up right so george st pierre was there ever talk about him moving up on his own accord never it was

01:04all about him defending his title at 170 he fought the who's who the killers i want to go back to that

01:09era where fighters defended their belts they had a consistent schedule there wasn't all this other

01:13politics that go on beside it as well which is oh i want to be a double champ for all this right like

01:17this is what we were used to back in the day and now it's completely changed like i'm hearing fighters

01:22i'm hearing people fans even talking now well hey if chimaev wins at 319 what about him moving up

01:26to lay heavyweight it's like he hasn't even won the bell yet at 85 guys slow slow your roll on this

01:30one let's see fighters defend in their division first and then we can have those talks yeah great

01:35point james it is super it cannibalizes fighters it shatters their confidence sometimes they're not

01:42the same they lose they go to a weight class and there's a lot of these records of consecutive

01:47championship defenses that'll last forever james because like you said you know dude a guy wins one or

01:54two fights in a division now and fans well you should move up right they want to see that super

02:00fight all the time and quite frankly a lot of fighters they don't really care about the belt

02:05it's about money right but it's you know i mean it's like can i make more money like i can handle

02:10losing where i'm where's and i understand it the the shelf life the shelf life is pretty short

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