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Morning Report: Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya trade more barbs over Twitter

Over the last several weeks, the spread of coronavirus has completely shut down the sports world. Even the UFC was finally forced to cave in to outside pressure and indefinitely postpone all of their scheduled events. So fighters, like the rest of the world, are in lockdown, with nothing but time and an empty calendar. And given all this free time, it’s unsurprising that one of 2019’s biggest MMA feuds was reignited over the weekend.

Last year, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and middleweight champion Israel Adesanya spent much of the year lobbing shots at one another across the media.