Around 5 AM this morning UFC
Light-Heavyweight Champion Jon Bones Jones crashed his 2012 Bentley in to a
utility pole in Binghamton near his Endicott, NY home. The car was totaled but
Jones walked away with a bloody nose from when the air bag deployed. Following
the accident Jones was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor DWI, he was then
released in to the custody of a family member.
Bones has been the epitome of a champion;
previously he has never had a run-in with the law and has been described as an “All
around good guy”. What is strange is that last month in an interview with USA
Today he said that he did not see himself doing knucklehead things or anything
stupid which makes you wonder if he put a jinx on himself with those
statements. As this is his first brush with the law it isn’t expected that he
would be punished with anything more than a fine and probation.
As far as UFC fighters go, Jones
is among the most collectible so you have to wonder if this incident will cause
damage to his collectability. As long as things like this do not happen again I
don’t see his reputation getting too tarnished and I would expect Dana White
will stand by him. He is scheduled to fight at UFC 151 against Dan Henderson in
September and as long as he continues to win I think his long term value will
remain.
No comments:
Post a Comment