The kids are out
That would mean every close fight with a champion that you did not like the outcome would be seen as a loss and everyone would be a lineal champion. Anyone can push that narrative for close fights with champions as everyone would be lineal champion or something. The fight with Reyes was not a robbery, it was a close fight. Many outlets had jones winning including MMA fighters, while others scored it for Reyes. The Santos fight I do not get, Santos clearly lost.
The truth is Alex would not beat this old jones at his current state, so i do not get the talk, and he has yet to even fight a true grappler. A prime jones would wipe the floor with Alex so it is a moot point at this time.
Alex is lucky he never met jones in the cage in his prime or even currently as he would have been thrown around. Heck he is lucky DC, Jones, Evans, Bader, Phil, and all the other grapplers are no longer in the LHW division. Alex would not be in the top 5 if the old guard were still at LHW. Good fighter but he is not jones and will never be him. That is the real reality.