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Jon Jones is still MMA’s unfortunate problem and the UFC’s desperate solution

This is MMA, the misfit’s toybox of sports. It only stood to reason that Covid-19’s ghastly ascent to a global pandemic, resulting in worldwide social distancing and quarantining, would somehow create an environment for one of this sport’s notables to do something lamentable; idle hands to the devil’s work. Apparently, Ashlee Evans-Smith’s bizarre protective equipment heist wasn’t good enough, so in the wee hours of Thursday morning, the MMA gods decided only one man was fit for the job: cagefighting’s greatest agent of chaos, Jon Jones.

Groundhog Day might be in February, but Covid-19 has turned the month of March into a day-in, day-out repetition of boredom, malaise, anxiety and terror.