Jon Jones Targets Permanent Move to Heavyweight and Super Fight with Cain Velasquez
Posted on November 27, 2013 by Erik Fontanez
http://www.mmaweekly.com/jon-jones-targets-permanent-move-to-heavyweight-and-super-fight-with-cain-velasquez
PRlol goodluck fighting against Velasquez, Dos Santos, Big Foot
Jones: +15/20cm reach, -50lbs
He can still keep shedding to 205 till late 20s/early 30s ... top athletes experience a severe decline in that ability in their mid to late 30s
the real concern re: age is his ability to gain muscle mass in as short time
even if we were severely optimistic about it, and put him at +4lb lbm/month that still takes him out of the LHW scene for a year(gain lbm = can't fight/defend LHW; and in that transition period, he won't be fighting t3 HWs because he'd be too small)
but again, that +4lb lbm/month is SEVERELY OPTIMISTIC
that's the #of an unregulated bber while
BULKING, and on various supps
a more realistic number for a competing athlete at the top aged mid20s would be 2.5lb lbm/month
at that rate he'll be ready in 1.5-2 years
despite all that, i'd like to see him go up to HW and fight bigfoot and hunt
I want to see how he handles a few taps from those behemoths who walk through quite a few hits
arlovski-jones would be a bore. I like arlovski more than I do jones, but I think arlovski would lose that one