May - 2015
SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
26
It’s all anyone will be talking
about in the MMA world for
the next few days: Jon Jones
has been stripped of his UFC
title. His reign as light heavy-
weight champion is over, ex-
tinguished not by a shocking
upset in the octagon but by
a series of foolish decisions
outside of it. In the end, it’s
the culmination of a long his-
tory of bad life choices the
now ex-champion has made
over the years. Some will
say it’s karma. Some will call
it bad luck. Some will say it
had to be done, some will
say it shouldn’t have been
done. In the case of the lat-
ter, what they’re really saying
is that “we didn’t want it to
be done.”
Stripping Jones of his UFC
title, which he has held since
March 2011, when he defeat-
ed Shogun Rua to become
the youngest UFC champion
in history, deprives fans of
seeing some great title fights.
It absolutely does. His sched-
uled bout at UFC 187 against
Anthony Johnson represent-
ed, for the first time in years,
UFC MADE THE RIGHT DECISION ON
JON JONES, NOT THE EASY ONE
Article By: Jay Anderson
(Dave Mandel/Sherdog)
