Even as he stands days away from facing him in the UFC 247 main event, Dominick Reyes has no problem conceding that Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in mixed martial arts history.
In fact when Jones was winning his first UFC title in 2011, Reyes was still three years away from making his mixed martial arts debut. Nearly a decade later, Jones is still essentially undefeated—his lone loss came by disqualification in a fight he was winning handily—and his resume reads like a Hall of Fame candidate’s list with wins over Daniel Cormier, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Lyoto Machida.