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Opinion: How to Ruin Your Own Special Night (and Your Career, Too)

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The frustrating and discouraging drama surrounding Jon Jones is now such an expected part of his prizefighting career that it’s hard to pick a place to even start discussing his potential doping test failure. It’s even harder to imagine when it might end, if ever.

When Jones has gotten drunk and/or high and gone drifting and/or drag racing in the past, he has been a danger to himself and ordinary citizens who have made the simple mistake of sharing the road with him.