Live Chat: Jon Jones UFC 200 referee issue, UFC fight week prep, Bellator Dynamite 2 recap
This is the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat.
It's a little bit more of a quiet week in the sport, but 'quiet' is just a relative term. Jon Jones is making headlines as he asked the Nevada Athletic Commission permission to have a different referee than John McCarthy. His reasoning? Well, no one really knows. Everything he's stated publicly doesn't amount to a real argument. His manager, Malki Kawa, essentially confirmed that last night on Twitter. Daniel Cormier isn't happy about it either. Why is he doing it, then? We can all theorize about the reasons, but the fact remains Jones has not articulated a clear basis for which McCarthy can't or shouldn't be allowed to referee.
We're also less than a week removed from the major UFC fight...