Last week, the satellite of combat sports was taken aback by the quality of the status of 1 of the top - Jon Jones. While galore expected the announcement of the combat against Tom Aspinall, which would determine the undisputed champion of the UFC heavyweight division, the wholly other quality appeared; the experienced 37-year-old decided to bent up his gloves.
"Bones" himself posted an affectional farewell message, and astatine the aforesaid clip fighters, trainers, journalists and analysts poured successful words of praise for the Octagon legend. However, it did not instrumentality long, and the nationalist received caller shocking information.
According to the section Albuquerque Journal, Jones was allegedly progressive successful a car mishap connected February 21 of this year, aft which helium fled the scene. It turned retired that determination was a half-naked pistillate successful the conveyance nether the power of alcohol, who told the constabulary that she had been drinking and consuming mushrooms astatine Jones' home. "The past happening I retrieve is the crash," she said.
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Last night, a constabulary serviceman who arrived astatine the country of the mishap besides released a video of a dashcam. The video shows a distraught pistillate repeatedly repeating done tears that her person who had “disappeared” was driving the vehicle. At 1 point, she called the antheral connected her compartment telephone and handed the instrumentality to the officer. “That’s Jon Jones,” she said.
Then, a dependable connected the different extremity is heard making superior threats: “My brothers chopped throats and termination radical for a batch little than this. You won’t beryllium the archetypal feline I’ve threatened this year, I curse to God. If thing happens to me, man, she’s dead.”
When asked straight if they were talking to Jones, the dependable did not confirm.
His lawyer, Christopher Dodd, claims the lawsuit was fabricated: “My lawsuit was not successful that car. That pistillate is utilizing his sanction to get distant with it.”
Is the MMA fable truly done with his career? Or is this an effort to debar caller ineligible troubles? We whitethorn soon find retired the answers, but it is already wide determination are a batch of questions.