After mauling Chael Sonnen at UFC 159, it is obvious that Jon Jones has no serious competitors at 205 pounds. This is simply not news to many battle supporters, but there's really no room for debate left. The UFC light heavyweight champion isn't invincible and may very well eat a legitimate beat in the weight class to accompany the bludgeoning of Matt Hamill that Bones theoretically "lost." But if that ever occurs, it is going to be the product of the success whipping himself or some out-of-nowhere freak of nature that is not even on the 205-pound radar at the moment. Go through the organization's own light heavyweight ratings. They are definitely not definitive, but they might easily be mistaken as such:, as they are revealed by the business that puts on the cards You'll remember that Bones dispatched the present top competition with intense prejudice at UFC 140. It's true that the Dragon gave problems to him in the initial round and were able to feel the champ several times. But Jon in the course of time discovered his range, bloodied the Brazilian and fundamentally left him in a ton at the beds base of the cage courtesy of a nasty position guillotine. Neither Evans nor Rua nor Bader fared any better than Machida. Alhough, Suga Rashad does get a star in the moral-victory column to be the first person to actually go a full five units with the UFC's version of the bogeyman. Teixeira and Gustafsson would both be interesting if the 25-year-old champion could be placed by them in stasis and improve while Jones was struggling to achieve this herself. Unfortunately for both up-and-comers, Jon appears to be improving as fast as, if not faster than, anyone else in the department. Potentially the business. He didn't have much of an opportunity to show his latest updates, but even in the about five minutes it took to dismantle Sonnen, Jones proved he had anything every all-time great must have: poise enough to understand a no-win situation smoothly. And he has it at a somewhat early age. Bones has probably reached that rarest level of prominence where such a thing in short supply of an amazing performance against a genuine adversary can keep the audience grumbling: "What is the large fuss?" That means the great majority of his times will be lose-lose propositions from now on because most of the men on that listing of light heavyweight contenders will not be observed as genuine contenders. Anderson Silva reached that point around Patrick Cote and Thales Leites. Issues were planning in a ugly course if the Demian Maia Incident at UFC 112 was any sign, but Sonnen's arch-villain routine and near-upset at UFC 117 changed the game on the Spider. One might even argue Chael saved Anderson from himself by providing Silva with a "worthy" foil or at least one the UFC middleweight winner had to just take seriously. Regardless, Silva indicated that, even at well-seasoned 34 years of age (at enough time of the ordeal in Abu Dhabi), the weight of being the very best dog could be as any opposition as dangerous. The stakes are, almost by definition, larger for the one holding the strip than for the one trying to go on it. Sometimes unfairly therefore, which tips the scales of pressure much more significantly toward the title-holder. UFC 159's main eventa'featuring perhaps the best 205-pounder of all time against a man who'd not fought at the fat in almost a and got blasted in his last bout at 185 poundsa'was a perfect exemplory instance of the trend. If Jones had stepped over the cage and bumped Sonnen out in 12 seconds, the Prudential Center group would've roared nicely and then came back to speaking about Alan Belcher's eye or Roy Nelson's nuclear right hand. Jon Jones had nothing to get, everything to lose and sailed through the ordeal unscathed. He could've toyed together with his foe, he could've trash-talked him or tried to make an example of him. Bones could've insisted on beating Sonnen with his own head games, but rather chose the better part of valor and beat Chael with his own fight game. Until the umpire had seen enough the light heavyweight champ bullied the much smaller challenger, arrived a few punishing takedowns and pulped Sonnen. Certain, the stoppage looked a tad early, but just because Chael was still conscious, maybe not because he'd any chance of rallying. So chalk up another impressive, though unsurprising efficiency for Jones and yet another mental gun to choose the resolve he confirmed against Vitor Belfort's infamous armbar at UFC 152. We are brought by which back once again to that listing of so-called challengers. The Mauler and Teixeira are outstanding inside their own rights, but neither gets the actual methods that Jones' includes and Jon is demonstrating up to the emotional challenges as well. Both deserve and will almost certainly manage to get thier photographs, but neither will be a great gamble to unseat the 205-pound kingpin except one or both can find ways to close on the winner between now and then. Hendo and Minotoro Nogueira might've given Jones' a work for his equipment within their primes, but despite my man-crush on Dangerous Dan and my regard for anybody called Nogueira, you are speaking about 42 and 36. Age isn't the end-all-be-all of fight aspects, but putting it to all or any of Jones' other advantages does not help. That leaves Davis and Mousasi. Mr. Wonderful only picked aside Vinny Magalhaes, but well, it absolutely was Vinny Magalhaes. Davis comes into the "needs more improvement" camp alongside Gustafsson and Teixeira, he only generally seems to need more of it. When it comes to Dreamcatcher, who knows what to model of him now? He is looked like a world-beater at times and then looked like the person who battled Keith Jardine to an attract 2011.AEither way, Mousasi's about the same size as Sonnen, although not nearly as real, so it's difficult to see him providing Jones much resistance. As for the mythic warrior from beyond the horizon, the only real name I could think about is Daniel Cormier, but have you seen DC lately? If he is established on trimming down to 205 properly (as he must be), it's going to be described as a while before we see Cormier at light heavyweight and that's if he also decides where he really wants to go that's. Till then, Dana White and Joe Silva are getting to need to get creative since, after five eye-opening name defenses and 10 consecutive wins at 205 pounds with eight coming via stoppage, the UFC light heavyweight champ has little left to prove and even less competition against which to prove it.
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