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The curious case of ex-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones continued this week, as he stood in an orange jump suit before a judge in a court of law. Having been pulled over by the police just 5 days prior for allegedly drag racing in the streets of New Mexico, Jones had felt the lonesome space of a jail cell for 4 days after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Violating the terms of his probation, worsened to a minor extent by his foul demeanour towards the New Mexico police officer, the 28-year old New York born Jones looked humble in court.

After such a torrid year for ‘Bones’ it was hoped he’d be able to stay on the straight and narrow. Alas the temptation of driving his high powered and modified Corvette was too strong, and we found ourselves once again worrying about Jones being pulled from a title fight. This time around Jones is the challenger and Daniel Cormier the champion, after the UFC stripped the fallen champion following his 2015 hit-and-run. The consensus cry from the MMA community was ‘Please Jon, stop driving.’

So here he stood, before a realistic yet stern judge, who sentenced Jon Jones to an extra 60 hours of community service, driver and anger management courses, and a no-drive before checking with his PO policy. Watch the video of the judge’s ruling and warning to Jon Jones:

“Jon, if you do come back here, it won’t go well”.

Here’s the UFC’s official response to Jon Jones’ latest law worries:

“UFC respects the decision made today by Judge Michael E. Martinez in New Mexico Second Judicial District Court regarding the probation terms of the case involving Jon Jones.”

Which is just about as generic a statement as you’d expect. Should the UFC be putting in extra measures to assure ‘Bones’ makes it to UFC 197 on April 23? Otherwise, we might find ‘DC’ facing a substitute, or worse no opponent in his scheduled third title defense.

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Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones has once again come in to trouble with the law, and again it’s involving a situation with ‘Bones’ behind the wheel. This time it was his alleged drag racing in the streets of New Mexico that got Jones mixed up with the police, and the subsequent explicit video that was released shows quite an immature side to the ex-champ. He’s remained in the jail house since turning himself in on Tuesday, after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

The warrant came as Jones had broken the terms of his probation, an 18 month restriction that the troubled fighter was hit with following last year’s hit-and-run fiasco. The 28-year old New York born Jones was also stripped of his title for the offense, and this all came after the leaked results of a failed OOC (out-of-competition) drug test for cocaine. In between all this madness Jones did manage to pull off a decision victory over Daniel Cormier at UFC 182.

Jones’ hearing was set for this morning (Thursday March 31, 2016) and the district attorney had recommended some anger management classes and a 10am-4pm curfew for Jones, unless he had to go out for work purposes. The scheduled bout with Daniel Cormier remains intact thus far for UFC 197, but this Jones in trouble thing is simply a broken record at this point.

The results of Jones’ hearing came in courtesy of Marc Raimondi on Twitter:

Jon Jones must attend anger management and driver improvement courses. No curfew. Must get probation officer’s approval to drive.

— Marc Raimondi (@marc_raimondi) March 31, 2016

What do you think, is the decision too soft? Does it simply open the door to ‘Bones’ getting in trouble once again? Only time will tell, but let’s just pray he makes it to UFC 197 to rematch Daniel Cormier for that belt!

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