Alex has beaten 4 UFC champs in 7 fights.

[Slaikkaaja]

Two former LHW champions Jan and Jiri, Adesanya when he was the MW champion, and Strickland the future MW champion. All this in 2 years. He was also older than any of his opponents except when he fought Jan Blachowicz.

Interesting statistic. Has anyone done the same? Sure he was fast tracked to the Izzy fight, but anyway.
Alex is a bad man.

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Jones beat Ryan Bader (dual Bellator champ later on), Shogun, Machida, Rampage, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort all back to back

Won and finished them all apart from Rashad
Jones bless

 

[Mulletenthusiast]

Jones beat Ryan Bader (dual Bellator champ later on), Shogun, Machida, Rampage, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort all back to back

Won and finished them all apart from Rashad
Jones bless

All of that while being a role model. Jones bless

 

[TempleoftheDog]

He’s beaten one UFC champion.. Izzy. He beat a future champion, and two ex-champions.

 

[Thy]

when opportunity knocks

 

[Slaikkaaja]

He’s beaten one UFC champion.. Izzy. He beat a future champion, and two ex-champions.

Come on man, don't be like that. A champ is a champ.

 

[kuf]

Taking into account his long mileage but relative inexperience in MMA, dude had a short window of opportunity to make it big and he passed with flying colors. Very happy for him.

I hope Glover and his coaches can help him take his grappling defence up a notch, because that still seems to be an obvious path to follow if you are aiming for his belt. But regardless of what follows, he already achieved a lot.

 

[honzo]

He’s beaten one UFC champion.. Izzy. He beat a future champion, and two ex-champions.

Izzy isn't a champion

 

[Dana's Conscience]

He’s beaten one UFC champion.. Izzy. He beat a future champion, and two ex-champions.

You know what he means

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

Izzy isn't a champion

He was when Alex beat him....

 

[rearnakedchoke]

He got knocked out by Izzy and took off from a rematch. Sounds bad ass

 

[Dana's Conscience]

He got knocked out by Izzy and took off from a rematch. Sounds bad ass

He said he wanted the rematch. It was Dana and Izzy who said no.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

He said he wanted the rematch. It was Dana and Izzy who said no.

He said he didn’t want to make the cut again.

 

[Dana's Conscience]

He said he didn’t want to make the cut again.

He said he wanted Izzy again at 185. Dana and Izzy quickly moved on from all questions about making a trilogy.

 

[deanambrose]

He didn't beat Jan.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

He said he wanted Izzy again at 185

He could have gotten it if he wanted. He shook from that ko. Now he’s saying come see me or daddy or whatever. Izzy flatlined him.

 

[SpecialDelivery]

I hate all the "fast track" talk, who cares??
It was obviously the right decision with Alex because he's proven that he's been one of if not not THEE best in 2 divisions.

 

[Tweak896]

I'm actually surprised no one is attacking how he never defended a title in UFC yet. I like the way he fights and hyped for Alex. Glad he made it to the top in both divisions, but he's basically on par with Conor at this point without a title defense.

He looks skinny at LHW, I could see him bulking for HW maybe. Aspinall and Jones would be nightmare opponents though. Actually now that I'm thinking about it if Almeida dropped to LHW he'd be probably Pereira's kryptonite.

 

[Dana's Conscience]

He could have gotten it if he wanted. He shook from that ko. Now he’s saying come see me or daddy or whatever. Izzy flatlined him.

What makes you think he could have gotten it if he wanted? Based on Dana and Izzy's reactions to probes about the possibility of it, I'd say he couldn't.

 

[Xanzito]

He could have gotten it if he wanted. He shook from that ko. Now he’s saying come see me or daddy or whatever. Izzy flatlined him.

AV checks out.