Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes had one of the most controversial title fights in recent memory. Jones was defending his Light Heavyweight title against the upstart Reyes. While many expected Jones to outclass the inexperienced Reyes, the opposite happened. Reyes dominated the early goings of the fight, but couldn’t get a finish on the crafty champion.

Jones did enough to win on the scorecards, even though most people scored it for Dominick. That was Jones’s last LHW bout before announcing a move to heavyweight, After Reyes’s loss to Jan Blachowicz, Jones tweeted about Dom in a subtle way. He first spoke about a “People’s champ”, but confirmed that he was talking about Reyes in his very next tweet.

The first tweet wasn’t a direct shot and could have been interpreted differently. However, Jones confirmed he was talking about Reyes by responding to a fan discussing the target of the tweet being Dominick.

Jon Jones and his issues with Dominick Reyes

Jones won the fight. Why is he bringing Reyes’s loss in a title fight in a division he left up? Well, there are two reasons. First, it’s Jon Jones, and he will never shy away from sharing an opinion about anything. Second, Jones is obviously still upset at the narrative created around Reyes after the performance in the first fight.

People tried to say that Jones leaving for the heavyweights was to avoid giving Reyes the rematch he earned. Reyes did get his rematch, but ran into a Polish beast in Jan Blachowicz. Now, instead of being the LHW champion that beat Jon Jones, Reyes is on a two-fight skid. While the first performance got him everyone’s respect, the second fight took away that instantly.

You could honestly say that Jones is giving Reyes some friendly advice to not get caught up in what everyone says about him. After all, he has been lauded and slandered by the media for years, but his performances inside the cage have been dominant as ever. Reyes showed the spark of super-stardom and is on the verge of burning out after his lackluster performance against Blachowicz.

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