Three years ago, if I told you that five middleweights of note in the UFC, Chris Weidman, Luke Rockhold, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Anthony Smith and Thiago Santos, were moving to light heavyweight, you’d probably be intrigued by the first three, and not care much about the other two.
If I then said two of them would get a title shot at Jon Jones, and one would take Jones to a split decision with both knees blown out, and two would get blown out in the new weight class, nobody would have ever been able to pick who ended up where.