Snapping a four-year run with no victory over the course of final weekend in his UFC Louisville knockout win, former mild heavyweight championship challenger, Dominick Reyes has poked enjoyable on the ongoing dialog relating to the legacy of Jon Jones – claiming he ought to have overwhelmed the heavyweight king again in 2020.
Reyes, the present quantity fifteen ranked mild heavyweight challenger, returned over the course of final weekend in Kentucky within the co-main occasion of UFC Louisville, touchdown a blistering first spherical knockout win over Dustin Jacoby within the pair’s conflict.
The win got here as Hesperia native, Reyes’ first since 2019 knockout win over former middleweight kingpin Chris Weidman in the primary occasion of UFC Battle Night time Boston.
Within the time since, Reyes had suffered a slew of 4 consecutive losses – three of which in vicious knockout defeats to Jan Blachowicz, Jiri Prochazka, and Ryan Spann.
Difficult former pound-for-pound primary, Jones for mild heavyweight spoils at UFC 247, Reyes pushed the Rochester native to his absolute restrict over the course of 5 rounds – struggling an in depth, hugely-debated unanimous choice (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) defeat to the present heavyweight gold holder.
Dominick Reyes pokes enjoyable at Jon Jones’ legacy after UFC Louisville
And amid the continued dialogue relating to the standing of Jones’ legacy ought to he keep away from a title unification conflict with present interim gold holder, Tom Aspinall, Reyes joked that the previous ought to at all times do not forget that he ought to have misplaced his title towards him 4 years in the past.
“He (Jon Jones) doesn’t see Tom (Aspinall) or Curtis (Blaydes) as a long-standing champion,” Dominick Reyes instructed MMA Preventing while discussing Jon Jones’ legacy. “And he sees them as ‘proper now’. And he’s not fearful about proper now, he’s fearful about eternally.”
“However eternally, he can even know that he misplaced to me, however possibly we might determine that out sooner or later,” Dominick Reyes defined. “Oh yeah, it’s not a perception [that I beat him], it’s a truth – there’s a distinction.”
