Keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, in light of
ex-Ultimate Fighting Championship champ Jon Jones’
latest arrest.
ESPN
broke the news on Friday that Jones had been arrested in Las Vegas
on Friday morning for battery domestic violence and injuring or
tampering with a vehicle to cause damage of greater than $5,000.
Jones came to Las Vegas for his induction to the UFC Hall of Fame
on Thursday night, for his 2013 title tilt against Alexander
Gustafsson at UFC 165. “Bones” is still in custody, according
to Clark County court records, and he is awaiting a probable cause
DNA review for drug or alcohol intoxication. Jones’ bail is
currently set at $8,000, and he will be brought into court on
Saturday.
In an interview before his Hall of Fame induction, Jones joked with
media that at heavyweight he needed to “do more legally
controversial s—” to stay relevant. This incident is one in a
long chain of arrests throughout his career for various offenses.
In 2020, he was
taken into custody for a DWI and negligent use of firearms.
Earlier than that, he was
charged with battery at a strip club in July 2019, pleaded
guilty to
drag racing in 2016 and was involved in a
hit-and-run with a pregnant woman in 2015. He also
picked up a DWI in 2012 for crashing into a telephone pole
while in New York.
Jones’ representative, Richard Schaefer, told
ESPN that, “The facts are still developing, we really don’t
know yet the full story so I’m not going to make any comment until
I have a chance to talk to Jon and until we see how this plays
out.”
As a professional inside the Octagon, no man could best him. A
disqualification loss remains on his record to Matt Hamill,
but Jones was DQed for 12-to-6 elbows after thrashing Hamill on the
ground right before a stoppage could come. A pair of decisions
against Thiago
Santos in 2019 and Dominick
Reyes in 2020 pushed Jones harder than anyone not named
Gustafsson had tested him, but Jones prevailed on the scorecards on
both occasions. “Bones” relinquished the light heavyweight strap in
2020 to move up to heavyweight, but he has not been scheduled to
compete since then.
