If Jones could have just had a little bit of self control outside of the octagon, he’d probably be the best of all time. About the time he started to get sideways was about the time I stopped watching regularly. Not because of him, the fighters I grew up with and loved were all old and starting to suck and I just lost interest. Henderson, Shogun, Cro Cop, Rampage, Wandy, Penn, Hughes etc.
UFC really should have adopted Pride rules when they took them over. Pride was so much better than the UFC. With that illegal satellite hookup we had, I never missed a fight. Have maybe watched 5 ppvs in the last 10 years now though, and haven’t watched a fight since McGregor broke his leg.
And now all the washed up ground game specialists are agreeing to boxing matches with a Youtube star and predictably losing boxing matches because they’re not boxers, and Randy Couture embarrassing Jakes Toney just becomes a more and more distant memory