UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones avoids trial after agreeing to anger management classes

Agreement reached after incident during drug test
Jones will defend heavyweight belt in November

UFC heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones has agreed to attend four hours of anger management classes to resolve a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from a drug test at his New Mexico home in which he was accused of being hostile.

A trial was set to begin on Tuesday before a New Mexico judge, but a prosecutor and Jones’ defense attorney announced that an agreement had been reached. The charges of assault, a petty misdemeanor, and interference with communication, a misdemeanor, will be dismissed as along as Jones completes the anger management classes and follows all laws over the next 90 days.

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