And apply this to all of Jon's close fights and there goes your argument. And lastly atleast Jones had close fights against guys his size. Arona by all accounts was a MW. Fedor's career is littered with bad performances against MW, despite you claiming he's laughably HW GOAT.
So did Jones. Outstruck strikers like Machida, Rua, TRT Vitor. Beat up Glover in the clinch which was his sweet spot. Outwrestled DC a former olympian, tapped out black belts etc.
But he was far more dominant and impressive than Fedor against level of comp lightyears ahead of the old dinosaurs of the one dimensional Pride era. And all he really had was a wrestling background, he was learning striking while starting MMA and got a lot of his moves from youtube. Fedor was a carefully manufactured Russian experiment who had loads of amateur MMA experience in Sambo before turning pro.
Nothing crazy happened in the Reyes fight, it was closely contested and went to the decision.
He didn't get almost KO'd by a sloppy windmill(Fujita) slammed and almost killed(Randleman) top controlled and almost submitted by an obese kickboxer with zero grappling(Hunt) and put on his back repeatedly by an againg wrestler(Coleman) had trouble standing AND on the ground against a tire mechanic with barely any technique or experience(Rogers).
And yes lets just keep ignoring him getting submitted by Werdum within minutes, outstruck and outgrappled by Bigfoot and outstruck and KO'd in a grappling sequence after being controlled against the fence by a middle aged MW yes? While Jones is still undefeated to this day at an older age than Fedor was when he started losing. Good talk.