i cant help but to laugh at all of the people who picked shogun to actually have a legitimate chance at defeating jon jones.

jon jones is in an entirely different class/league than most people in mma today. that fight was way too easy to call, shoulda been jon jones -500.

same shit with fedor vs antonio silva, buncha squares on old man fedor and he gets creamed by the new era of fighters.

just in the last year or so you're starting to see a new level of athlete in the mma world.
Well-educated fans had no reason to believe that Jones would win so decisively. It's important to remember that arguably Shogun's greatest strength is his underrated, fluid ground game: he effortlessly omoplata swept Ricardo Arona, synched up a brutal kneebar on Kevin Randleman from half guard, and swept Machida almost instantly (who is a very good grappler on the ground). Jones, on the other hand, is only a white belt with submission wins over a couple of wrestlers. Point is, nobody had any idea how Shogun's guard would match up against Jones' top control prior to the fight. A -500 line for Jones would have been absolutely ludicrous given everything we knew about both fighters' skills at that point in time.