ALBUQUERQUE, NM – UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon “Bones” Jones agreed to attend four hours of anger management classes to resolve a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico home in La who was accused of being hostile.
A trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday before a New Mexico judge, but a prosecutor and Jones' defense attorney announced at the start of the digital proceeding that a deal had been reached.
Charges of assault, a misdemeanor, and interference with communication, a misdemeanor, will be dismissed as long as Jones completes anger management classes and follows all laws for the next 90 days.
Jones had pleaded not guilty in July, and when the allegations first became public earlier this year, he called them baseless. He posted on social media that he had been caught off guard by what he called the unprofessionalism of one of the evaluators and acknowledged cursing after becoming frustrated.
Considered one of the best fighters in MMA, Jones took the heavyweight title with a first-round submission over Ciryl Gane in March 2023. It was Jones' first fight in three years and his first in the heavyweight division. He was already the best light heavyweight by winning a record 14 title fights.
Jones will face Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 on November 16 at the Madison Square Backyard in New York. He and Miocic were scheduled to fight last year, but a pectoral injury forced Jones to postpone it.
In 2016, Jones was suspended for a year for a failed drug test and his 2017 win over Daniel Cormier became a no-contest after another drug test came back positive. Jones later argued that he would have approved revised standards in 2019 by the US Anti-Doping Agency, which changed the criteria for what constituted a positive test.
A woman who worked for Drug Free Sport Worldwide, which performs testing for professional athletes, initially filed a report with Albuquerque police in April. She accused Jones of threatening her while she and a colleague were at Jones' house for a drug test.
A criminal complaint stated that the woman described Jones as cooperative at first, but that he became restless.
Jones told police he apologized for insulting the woman and her co-worker at the end of the test. He provided video from what appeared to be a home camera system that showed the woman giving her a high five before leaving. He said neither seemed scared during the interaction.
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