{"id":585889,"date":"2026-04-06T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:23:07","slug":"jon-jones-releases-statement-after-road-rage-incident-caught-on-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585889\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones releases statement after road rage incident caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champ Jon Jones is speaking out after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/434151\/video-former-ufc-champion-jon-jones-confronts-driver-in-road-rage-incident-you-gotta-calm-down-bro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">footage<\/a> of an alleged road rage incident surfaced on social media over Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The video showed Jones getting out of his truck in a parking lot and approaching a man who accused the fighter of nearly running him off the road several times. Jones kept one hand conspicuously in his hoodie pocket, with the video caption suggesting he was \u201cmost likely packing a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou gotta calm down, bro, you gotta relax yourself, bro,\u201d Jones said before sticking his middle finger into the man\u2019s camera phone and walking back to his truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The other driver, Bryan Beltran, claimed he was \u201cDriving up Central close to Eubank, when I was almost hit 3 times by the truck, even after I revved my car at him the first time it almost happened, he still almost hit me twice after that, so I flipped him off, then he proceeded to stop in the middle of the road back up and come into the same parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones has now shared his side of the story on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis kid proceeded to chase my car down for two blocks, revving his engine and trying to intimidate me,\u201d Jones tweeted. \u201cI am glad this happened to me and not one of the senior citizens in our community. I am proud of myself for standing up for myself and not allowing that kind of bullying or intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who was in the right and who was in the wrong? Without complete camera footage of the entire event, it\u2019s impossible to tell. Should Jones be confronting people while at the very least pretending to have a gun in his pocket? We\u2019d suggest this is a good way to end up getting charged with negligent use of a firearm again, like he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/3\/26\/21196419\/ufc-police-report-jon-jones-dwi-arrest-released-mma-gun-open-container-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did in March 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones\u2019 fighting career is currently in limbo following a failed bid to fight Alex Pereira at the White House. He\u2019s since asked the UFC to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\/428014\/stem-cell-fueled-arthritic-jon-jones-fires-back-at-dana-white-over-real-ufc-white-house-negotiations-requests-release-i-was-low-balled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release him from his contract,<\/a> but they have not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champ Jon Jones is speaking out after footage of an alleged road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-585889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}