Jon Jones receives no jail time in plea deal
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Millions of dollars for an arm break. Sounds reasonable to me. She should also get to pick his punishment once her arm is fully healed and the emotional trauma she suffered has been addressed in the PTSD counseling that she surely needs from this life threatening moment for her and her unborn child, not to mention various cousins and coworkers who think of what could have happened to her and junior. Yup victim gets to impose whatever sentence she desires. Hope she's a forgiving sort and keeps in mind he has children and baby's mamas to financially support
Without MMA this guy is a blight on society. If somebody did this exact same thing to him, people would be calling for their head. The ONLY reasons he got off lightly is because of MMA/UFC. I root against him because of reasons like this. I also don't watch any cards that he is on. I know my $ doesn't add up to a lot but I do it on principle. For the record I don't watch a lot of other sports for some of the same reasons.
The thing DC said always sticks with me. Jones could have really been someone transcendent because of his talent. He's the guy that could not only have taken MMA over the top, but could have done lots for kids in communities if he only gave an F like he always said he did.
But at the end of the day, he didn't owe anyone any of that. In a way I wish he'd never presented himself as wanting to be that because it's disappointing to see his fall from grace. I don't wish litigation on anyone and I'm glad he won't get locked up, but I hope he's really taken a hard look at himself and comes back as someone new. If he doesn't, oh well.
My other big worry with this is that the UFC likely endeared themselves somewhat to Jon by standing by him despite the ceremonial stripping of his title. That could entrench him even further as a company man. A part of me still hopes he goes full heel in the absence of having meaningfully changed and refuses to fight the DC/Cormier winner because he's the real champion anyway. Then he flies off to Japan freed from his championship clause and joins Fedor to build a new super org. He becomes Fedor's apprentice studying MMA and the Eastern Orthodox piety and Fedor gets to do for him what he never could for Aleks.
And yes, I'm a couple bowls in.
But at the end of the day, he didn't owe anyone any of that. In a way I wish he'd never presented himself as wanting to be that because it's disappointing to see his fall from grace. I don't wish litigation on anyone and I'm glad he won't get locked up, but I hope he's really taken a hard look at himself and comes back as someone new. If he doesn't, oh well.
My other big worry with this is that the UFC likely endeared themselves somewhat to Jon by standing by him despite the ceremonial stripping of his title. That could entrench him even further as a company man. A part of me still hopes he goes full heel in the absence of having meaningfully changed and refuses to fight the DC/Cormier winner because he's the real champion anyway. Then he flies off to Japan freed from his championship clause and joins Fedor to build a new super org. He becomes Fedor's apprentice studying MMA and the Eastern Orthodox piety and Fedor gets to do for him what he never could for Aleks.
And yes, I'm a couple bowls in.
This 'full heel' stuff that people have been saying since pieces of JBJ's character escaped to the surface. Maybe it's just me and my 'attention seeking drama' but I've never been fascinated by the 'good guy'.
Early JBJ who caught thieves, turned in college roommates for smoking weed etc did nothing I found interesting beyond a win. Same with Bellator's Michael Chandler. The 'gosh darn its' and 'shucks ma'am' isn't interesting even if it were real, which I don't think it's totally authentic in either of them.
What inspires me about a persons character and achievements are when they've been tested and failed morally, publicly, financially. Watching to see how a person accepts and evolves from the self inflicted wreckage better shows a realistic life lesson.
I want to know the pain and self hatred. The rebuilding of self esteem and acceptance of who you are at your very essence. That's fascinating and inspiring to me.
Not a Dudley DoRight who always does the right thing, or never gets caught doing wrong. Not a facsimile of a villain, but a person who struggles with who they actually are rather than who they thought they were. That's beautiful.
FRAT
Early JBJ who caught thieves, turned in college roommates for smoking weed etc did nothing I found interesting beyond a win. Same with Bellator's Michael Chandler. The 'gosh darn its' and 'shucks ma'am' isn't interesting even if it were real, which I don't think it's totally authentic in either of them.
What inspires me about a persons character and achievements are when they've been tested and failed morally, publicly, financially. Watching to see how a person accepts and evolves from the self inflicted wreckage better shows a realistic life lesson.
I want to know the pain and self hatred. The rebuilding of self esteem and acceptance of who you are at your very essence. That's fascinating and inspiring to me.
Not a Dudley DoRight who always does the right thing, or never gets caught doing wrong. Not a facsimile of a villain, but a person who struggles with who they actually are rather than who they thought they were. That's beautiful.
FRAT
SUPER SUPER excited that the TRUE lightheavy weight ufc CHAMP is back. Miss watching him woop ass over n over again
Your level of first response training, or your geography don't dictate which laws you do or don't have to follow. The law says that if you get in a wreck, you have to stick around. He chose to take off. Why he thought it was a good course of action, I couldn't tell you. The only logical explanation was that he was planning to phone his car in stolen and say he wasn't driving, but I don't think he disclosed his reasoning, if he did anyone can feel free to enlighten me.
I don't think worse of him because of what could have happened, I think fleeing the scene is pretty appalling regardless of the outcome because it shows the individual is prepared to do just about anything to not be held accountable for their actions. If I were going to think worse of him it'd be because this is his second offense where he endangered the public from behind the wheel of a car. Dude seriously needs to hire a chauffeur.
who would that be?
im pretty sure we all know why he ran and was in hiding for how long? He was more than likely stoned or coked out of his ass.
You're probably right, but I'm not going to speculate on that. Why he was running, I won't pretend to know, but we know that he did.