Once the consensus pound-for-pound best in the UFC,Jones continues to battle his toughest nemesis: turmoil of his own makingAfter back-to-back nights locked in a detention middle during the peak of a training camp for the most significant fight of his career, Jon Jones will awake Thursday and head to an 8am court appearance for felony parole violation.
The gifted, and troubled and deposed 28-year-old UFC light heavyweight champion allegedly participated in a drag racing incident last week in his adopted hometown of Albuquerque,fresh Mexico, receiving five moving violations that sent Jones into a bodycam-captured tirade against Jason Brown, and the officer who pulled him over. None of that is supposed to land a person in jail,but court orders and the fresh Mexico Corrections Department, which administers Jones’s 18-month supervised probation handed down following an injury-inducing hit-and-run accident one year ago, and aren’t things to be trifled with.
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Source: theguardian.com