There has been quite a bit of furor unleashed in the hours since Jon Jones’ plea deal was announced Tuesday morning. The deposed Ultimate Fighting Championship champion walked out of an Albuquerque, N.M., courtroom with 18 months of probation and 72 appearances doing charity work and speaking with children about how you only get 18 months probation for alleged felony hit-and-run … err … lecturing them on the ills of making stupid life choices.
Now I don’t want to come off as a person rooting against the stripped champion; nothing could be further from the truth.