Jon Jones can soon put one of his many public blemishes in the rear-view mirror, as the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion has taken a plea deal in his drag racing case.
TMZ.com was first to report that Jones plead guilty to unlawful use of modif…
Jon Jones can soon put one of his many public blemishes in the rear-view mirror, as the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion has taken a plea deal in his drag racing case.
TMZ.com was first to report that Jones plead guilty to unlawful use of modification of exhaust systems and improper display of a registration plate in the Albuquerque, New Mexico Metropolitan Court on Thursday.
Other charges Jones was facing, including unlawful drag racing, unlawful exhibition driving and failure to maintain traffic lane, were thrown out.
As a result of the plea deal, Jones was given a 90-day deferred sentence and must complete aggressive driving school, 60 hours of community service and pay a fine in the amount of $143. Additionally, he must avoid violating any laws in that timeframe.
Although with his win at UFC 200, Jose Aldo has been guaranteed the first shot at Conor McGregor when he returns to the 145-pound division to defend his title, which he won from Aldo with a shocking 13-second knockout, it’s starting to look like we mig…
Although with his win at UFC 200, Jose Aldo has been guaranteed the first shot at Conor McGregor when he returns to the 145-pound division to defend his title, which he won from Aldo with a shocking 13-second knockout, it’s starting to look like we might have a problem.
McGregor noted during Friday’s UFC 202 media call to promote his 170-pound rematch against Nate Diaz that he was only really interested in a fresh fight in the Featherweight division, one in particular against the man Aldo defeated to secure the title shot, Frankie “The Answer” Edgar.
“That was why I was there,” McGregor said. “I wanted to see if this mother f*cker comes through this and can do what he’s saying, well then it’s on. But Aldo ended up taking that belt again.”
As far as a rematch against Aldo, “The Notorious” one doesn’t exactly sound thrilled about another go-around with the legendary Brazilian.
“I was scheduled to fight Aldo many times,” McGregor said. “We had like a two-year media run, the whole thing. I spent so much time with that man and he pulled out. Then we finally got into it and it took me one shot to the crown to shut his lights out. So I don’t know what he’s thinking. Right now, I’m prepared for a war and that’s that.”
McGregor would go on to reiterate the fact that he was anticipating a bout against Edgar, particularly because his coach, Mark Henry, had called him out a few times.
“To see Aldo come back and win that fight against Frankie, I was happy for Aldo,” McGregor said. “When you see a longtime champion get knocked out like that, the way I knocked him out, I said it then: I felt sorry for him a little bit. On top of that, Frankie’s team, they were all talking sh*t. That fat coach ( that holds mitts, he was talking a lot. He’s still talking sh*t.”
While there was a decent amount of discussion about a return to 145-pounds, McGregor did make it clear that even with a win over Diaz at UFC 202, he and the Stockton native are probably going to eventually have a third fight.
“One-hundred percent,” McGregor said of a Diaz trilogy. “Of course. Maybe not straight away. But most certainly this will be a trilogy fight. Me and the boy have something and it ain’t finished yet.”
As far as McGregor is concerned, in terms of what is next for him after next Saturday’s showdown with Diaz, is anybody’s guess.
“I haven’t really spoken to anyone about what’s next,” McGregor said. “Who knows what’s next? Right now, we’re 15 days away from a war and I’m ready for a war. So that’s all I’m thinking of right now. Let’s have this war.”
UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 takes place on Saturday, August 20, 2016 from the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Join us here at MMANews.com on 8/20 for live coverage of the UFC 202.
H/T to MMAFighting.com for transcribing the above Conor McGregor quotes from the UFC 202 media call.
On Thursday, the official launch of the brand new, respected union to represent all UFC fighters was finally announced.
The new UFC fighters union, which is being called the “Professional Fighters Association” (PFA), kicked off today with the launch…
On Thursday, the official launch of the brand new, respected union to represent all UFC fighters was finally announced.
The new UFC fighters union, which is being called the “Professional Fighters Association” (PFA), kicked off today with the launch of their official, state-of-the-art website at ProFighters.org. The website is currently a very in-depth explanation of what the union is, who the legitimate key figures from the other top sports players unions in the world are that are involved in it, and what exactly their goals are to help improve the balance between fighters and management.
No doubt inspired by the widely publicized $4 billion sale of the UFC to new owners, the union is specifically targeting the revenue split between fighters and the UFC itself, which currently lists all of the combined fighters in the company earning 15% of the revenue brought in. By comparison, most other major sports leagues have close to a 50/50 or 60/40 split between the players and management.
The PFA union also launched their official Twitter page, which you can add and follow @FightersAssoc.
Additionally, you can check out the in-depth, official press release issued by the PFA today below.
On Thursday, the official launch of the brand new, respected union to represent all UFC fighters was finally announced.
The new UFC fighters union, which is being called the “Professional Fighters Association” (PFA), kicked off today with the launch…
On Thursday, the official launch of the brand new, respected union to represent all UFC fighters was finally announced.
The new UFC fighters union, which is being called the “Professional Fighters Association” (PFA), kicked off today with the launch of their official, state-of-the-art website at ProFighters.org. The website is currently a very in-depth explanation of what the union is, who the legitimate key figures from the other top sports players unions in the world are that are involved in it, and what exactly their goals are to help improve the balance between fighters and management.
No doubt inspired by the widely publicized $4 billion sale of the UFC to new owners, the union is specifically targeting the revenue split between fighters and the UFC itself, which currently lists all of the combined fighters in the company earning 15% of the revenue brought in. By comparison, most other major sports leagues have close to a 50/50 or 60/40 split between the players and management.
The PFA union also launched their official Twitter page, which you can add and follow @FightersAssoc.
Additionally, you can check out the in-depth, official press release issued by the PFA today below.
Two days after competing at WWE’s “SummerSlam” vs. Randy Orton, former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is set to appear before the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Lesnar, according to a…
Two days after competing at WWE’s “SummerSlam” vs. Randy Orton, former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is set to appear before the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Lesnar, according to a report by MMAjunkie, is on the August 23 lineup for the next meeting for the NAC. He failed both pre- and post-fight drug tests for his UFC 200 fight against Mark Hunt.
The NAC will hear a request for an extension on Lesnar’s behalf, but Jon Jones’ case has yet to be put into the agenda.
Lesnar tested positive for clomiphene in his fight-night test and was immediately suspended.
With all of the talk lately regarding the potential Octagon return of legendary former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre, who has called out a laundry list of champions and top stars in multiple weight-classes, there has been very little concrete evidence of him actually beginning the technical process of returning — until now.
St-Pierre was one of the more high-profile fighters to publicly speak out about the growing, out-of-control performance-enhancing drug epidemic in the sport of mixed-martial-arts, which many feel ultimately led to the UFC out-sourcing and implementing a brand new, zero-tolerance Anti-Doping Policy for all fighters on their active roster, including out-of-competition, random drug tests — anywhere, any place, anytime.
Coincidentally enough, Nick Diaz, whom GSP spoke of in the aforementioned interview, just finished serving an 18-month suspension handed down by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) for a failed drug test (marijuana metabolites), which was actually initially a five-year sentence that was eventually reduced after an overwhelming showing of support from the MMA community.
During the same interview, “Rush” announced that he has enrolled in the mandatory USADA testing program that all fighters coming out of retirement must take part in, which thus far only former UFC Heavyweight Champion and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) crossover athlete Brock Lesnar has received an exemption from when he came out of MMA retirement as an active WWE-contracted star who was given permission by WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to make a surprise return against Mark Hunt at the landmark UFC 200 pay-per-view event last month.
Ironically enough, Lesnar, as the first person to receive special consideration regarding the new USADA policy in the UFC, would go on to fail both his out-of-competition and day-of, in-competition drug tests for banned substances, as the mandatory two-year suspension wouldn’t exactly matter to him once he returns back to his “day job” in WWE, which goes down one day after the big UFC 202 event with Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2, as he faces Randy Orton at WWE’s annual SummerSlam pay-per-view at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
GSP, who does plan to stay around, told Bloody Elbow’s Ram Gilboa this week that he absolutely wants no special consideration regarding the new Anti-Doping Policy, and has submitted a formal request to enter the USADA drug testing pool so he can be cleared and eligible to return to the Octagon, possibly as soon as later this year.
I don’t want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about performance-enhancing drugs,” St-Pierre told Gilboa. “It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption — I don’t want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else. That’s why I’ll be starting the process Aug 10. I don’t have any fight yet, but it’s gonna happen now, because I’m getting tested, if I’m getting tested it’s for a reason.”
St-Pierre last fought at UFC 167 back on November 16, 2013, where he successfully defended his UFC Welterweight Championship against dangerous knockout artist and powerhouse wrestler Johny Hendricks, earning a widely contested split decision after five closely fought rounds.
With all of the talk lately regarding the potential Octagon return of legendary former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre, who has called out a laundry list of champions and top stars in multiple weight-classes, there has been very little concrete evidence of him actually beginning the technical process of returning — until now.
St-Pierre was one of the more high-profile fighters to publicly speak out about the growing, out-of-control performance-enhancing drug epidemic in the sport of mixed-martial-arts, which many feel ultimately led to the UFC out-sourcing and implementing a brand new, zero-tolerance Anti-Doping Policy for all fighters on their active roster, including out-of-competition, random drug tests — anywhere, any place, anytime.
Coincidentally enough, Nick Diaz, whom GSP spoke of in the aforementioned interview, just finished serving an 18-month suspension handed down by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) for a failed drug test (marijuana metabolites), which was actually initially a five-year sentence that was eventually reduced after an overwhelming showing of support from the MMA community.
During the same interview, “Rush” announced that he has enrolled in the mandatory USADA testing program that all fighters coming out of retirement must take part in, which thus far only former UFC Heavyweight Champion and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) crossover athlete Brock Lesnar has received an exemption from when he came out of MMA retirement as an active WWE-contracted star who was given permission by WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to make a surprise return against Mark Hunt at the landmark UFC 200 pay-per-view event last month.
Ironically enough, Lesnar, as the first person to receive special consideration regarding the new USADA policy in the UFC, would go on to fail both his out-of-competition and day-of, in-competition drug tests for banned substances, as the mandatory two-year suspension wouldn’t exactly matter to him once he returns back to his “day job” in WWE, which goes down one day after the big UFC 202 event with Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2, as he faces Randy Orton at WWE’s annual SummerSlam pay-per-view at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
GSP, who does plan to stay around, told Bloody Elbow’s Ram Gilboa this week that he absolutely wants no special consideration regarding the new Anti-Doping Policy, and has submitted a formal request to enter the USADA drug testing pool so he can be cleared and eligible to return to the Octagon, possibly as soon as later this year.
I don’t want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about performance-enhancing drugs,” St-Pierre told Gilboa. “It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption — I don’t want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else. That’s why I’ll be starting the process Aug 10. I don’t have any fight yet, but it’s gonna happen now, because I’m getting tested, if I’m getting tested it’s for a reason.”
St-Pierre last fought at UFC 167 back on November 16, 2013, where he successfully defended his UFC Welterweight Championship against dangerous knockout artist and powerhouse wrestler Johny Hendricks, earning a widely contested split decision after five closely fought rounds.
