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.