UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been summoned to court following allegations he verbally threatened to kill a female anti-doping officer in Albuquerque.<\/b><\/p>\n
The incident is alleged to have taken place at Jones’ home on 30 March and was reported to the police on Friday.<\/p>\n
In a police department report seen by the BBC, the complainant said Jones was intoxicated, threatened to kill her and took her phone after he was asked to give a urine sample in the presence of two anti-doping officers.<\/p>\n
In response, Jones posted a video on Instagram which he says shows both drugs test officers “leaving my home after the testing session, where we exchanged a high five and a hug”.<\/p>\n
The athlete, who accused one of the testers of breaching standard protocols and health insurance laws, added: “Although I was frustrated with the unprofessionalism and used profanity out of frustration it ended friendly and amicably, nothing threatening at all.”<\/p>\n
Jones, 36, has not fought since March 2023, when he beat France’s Ciryl Gane via submission.<\/p>\n
Nicknamed Bones, he has won world titles in both the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, and is\u00a0regarded as one of the sport’s greatest fighters of all time.<\/a><\/p>\n He is unbeaten since his only loss against Matt Hamill in 2009.<\/p>\n In 2018, Jones was handed a 15-month backdated ban for violating the UFC’s anti-doping policy. The American was stripped of his light-heavyweight title, having tested positive for a banned substance before his bout at UFC 214 in 2017.<\/p>\n But the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) found Jones “was not intentionally cheating”.<\/p>\n In 2023, Jones said he felt he had been cleared of being a “steroid cheat” after changes to the threshold levels for certain prohibited drugs in 2019.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"