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Jon Jones calls police officer a 'f****** liar' and a 'pig' as former UFC champion pulled over for alleged drag racing

Jones revealed the news himself and announced his intention to appeal after denying the charges

James Edwards
Tuesday 29 March 2016 09:53 BST
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Jon Jones revealed he was pulled over and given a ticket for allegedly drag racing
Jon Jones revealed he was pulled over and given a ticket for allegedly drag racing

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has found himself on the wrong side of the law yet again and this time chose to get ahead of the media by breaking the news himself on Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour last evening.

Speaking to Helwani via Skype, Jones revealed he was recently pulled over by an Albuquerque Police Department officer and received five traffic citations, including a ticket for drag racing.

This latest incident is the most recent in a series of many for Jones in the past year, his most notable being the hit-and-run charge that led to the stripping of his UFC light heavyweight title in April 2015.

While completing his community service for that incident, Jones was again pulled over by police in January and received citations for three traffic violations including driving without a license, driving without registration, and driving without proof of insurance. Luckily for Jones, the New Mexico Corrections Department only handed down an additional three days of community service.

Speaking this evening, Jones explained the situation in detail to Ariel Helwani: “I pulled up to a red light and I had these fans that rolled down their window and they were trying to get me to roll down my window. I guess I wasn’t really in the mood to talk, so I revved my engine at them and they like started clapping and they were smiling, they were so happy.

"The light turns green and I start driving away, and I literally get pulled over like, I don’t know, ten yards after driving. I get pulled over in a 35mph zone and the officer tells me that I was drag racing.

"I was obviously really upset and I asked him how was it possible to be drag racing in a 35mph zone? He said, ‘Well, I never said you were speeding, but I’m going to ticket you for drag racing.’

"Knowing I just got a deferred sentence, knowing that the last thing I need to be associated with is a drag race, knowing that I wasn’t drag racing, I freaked out…I ended up arguing with this officer and it got pretty heated. This guy ended up giving me five tickets.”

Jones explained the tickets he received were for exhibition driving, drag racing, altered/modified exhaust, failure to maintain lane, and improper display of vehicle registration. Jones believes the citations were excessive and he plans to fight the tickets.

Shortly after Jones broke the news of his latest digression on the MMA hour, TMZ released footage of Jones being pulled over from a camera operated by the police office. As Jones had suggested to Helwani, he exchanged some not so flattering words with the officer who pulled him over, and appears to call the officer a "f****** liar", a "pig" and also labels him "despicable."

Jones is due to return at UFC 197 in a rematch with Daniel Cormier

Jones is due to meet Daniel Cormier on 23 April at UFC 197 and maintains that despite his latest run in the with the law his focus remains 100% on taking back his UFC light heavyweight title:

“I know I’m not guilty, we’re going to fight it, and I just don’t think this will affect the fight,” he confirmed to Helwani.

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