UFC champ Jon Jones agrees to anger management classes to resolve assault charge

UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has agreed to be anger guidance classes to resoluteness a brace of misdemeanor charges stemming from a supplier trial astatine his location successful which he was accused of being hostile

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- UFC heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones has agreed to be 4 hours of anger guidance classes to resoluteness a brace of misdemeanor charges stemming from a supplier trial astatine his New Mexico location successful which he was accused of being hostile.

A chair proceedings was group to statesman Tuesday earlier a New Mexico judge, but a charismatic and Jones' defense lawyer announced astatine nan commencement of nan virtual proceeding that an statement had been reached.

The charges of assault, a petty misdemeanor, and interference pinch communication, a misdemeanor, will beryllium dismissed arsenic on arsenic Jones completes nan anger guidance classes and follows each laws complete nan adjacent 90 days.

Jones had pleaded not guilty successful July, and erstwhile nan allegations first became nationalist earlier this year, he called them baseless. He posted connected societal media that he had been taken disconnected defender by what he called nan unprofessionalism of 1 of nan testers and acknowledged cursing aft getting frustrated.

Considered 1 of nan apical MMA fighters, Jones took nan heavyweight title pinch a first-round submission complete Ciryl Gane successful March 2023. It was Jones’ first conflict successful 3 years and his first successful nan heavyweight division. He already was nan champion ray heavyweight by winning a grounds 14 title fights.

Jones will look Stipe Miocic successful UFC 309 connected Nov. 16 astatine New York’s Madison Square Garden. He and Miocic were scheduled to conflict past year, but a pectoral wounded forced Jones to postpone.

In 2016, Jones was suspended for a twelvemonth for a grounded supplier trial and had his 2017 triumph complete Daniel Cormier turned into a no-contest aft different supplier trial came up positive. Jones based on later that he would person passed nether standards that were revised successful 2019 by nan U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which changed nan criteria for what constituted a affirmative test.

A female who worked for Drug Free Sport International, which conducts tests for master athletes, initially revenge a study pinch Albuquerque constabulary successful April. She accused Jones of threatening her while she and a workfellow were astatine Jones' location for a supplier test.

A criminal title stated that nan female described Jones arsenic cooperative astatine first but that he became agitated.

Jones told constabulary that he apologized for swearing astatine nan female and her co-worker astatine nan extremity of nan test. He provided video from what appeared to beryllium a location camera strategy showing nan female giving him a high-five earlier leaving. He said neither appeared frightened during nan interaction.