After being involved in a hit and run Sunday morning in Albuquerque New Mexico UFC Light Heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been stripped of his title and has been suspended indefinitely from the UFC. Jones was arrested on Monday in Albuquerque on allegations of leaving the scene of an accident, which is a felony charge in New Mexico due to one of the drivers suffering a fractured wrist and arm. The injured driver, later identified as Vanessa Sonnenberg, was taken to the hospital because she is pregnant and felt like she might pass out at the scene.

UFC president Dana White made the announcement regarding Jones  via FOX Sports Live on Tuesday night. White Dana white said he had a chance to speak with Jones early on Tuesday before the promotion took any action against him. White had this to say.
“He didn’t say a lot. Obviously, he’s got to handle his legal proceedings,

“His lawyer didn’t have him say much. What we wanted to find out is what the facts were. There’s a lot of things that are being said out there about what happened that day, a lot of them are untrue, a lot of them are speculation, and we wanted to hear Jon’s side of the story and we wanted to hear what his lawyer had to say about it.”

Now with Jon Jones being out of UFC187 the new main event will now be Daniel Cormier vs Anthony Johnson for the light heavyweight title.

Dana white Also said that “Jones is obviously very disappointed about what happened. He wanted to go down as the greatest of all time but it is what it is and we had to make the right call.”

At this moment Jon Jone’s future with the UFC is up in the air. Jones has yet to speak out publicly on the situation but he did send out this tweet.

https://twitter.com/jonnybones/status/593235515274432512

What are your thoughts on the situation? And further more who do you want as the new Light Heavyweight champion?

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)