Was pretty telling that the most common comment from Cormier's corner in between rounds was "do you want this?" Rockhold said he looked like he froze up at times. Maybe a case of right strategy (pressure; kicks, straights, overhands and jabs from range into clinch/dirty boxing), wrong tactic (coming in largely straight on, where he was eating the most shots, getting worn down in the process)? Tough to get angles though when you're trying to get to the clinch on a taller, rangier guy.
To those talking about leg kicks, Cormier did land a decent number of them, as well as body kicks, countering Jones' like Gustafsson did. Don't see anyone chopping Jones down though unless it's someone like Aldo; a brilliant fighter in all aspects who also has superlative leg kicks. There's no way that *****'s tibia snaps on Jones' Bambie legs but it seems like he's too busy to focus on the three and a half weeks of sprawl training required for him to take the title.
Also, seeing some revisionist history about the Gustafsson fight. Just because DC had a few tactical similarities to Gustafsson doesn't mean you can ignore the fact they have different builds and strategies. Someone said Jones clearly won the later rounds against Alex, which is simply untrue. Jones won because he stole the last six minutes of the fight after landing a single (brilliantly executed) strike; prior to that he was losing the fourth, perhaps by a bigger margin than any other round. Both guys have adjustments to make in a potential rematch. Jones' are obvious (strategy), but if Alex makes some changes to his exits the odds of that elbow landing drop even lower and he should be both less conservative and more measured in a rematch (if that makes sense, he was initially very flighty against Jones and didn't sit down on his punches, later he seemed to realise he was overdoing it).
