What really mattered at UFC 232? Here are a few things …

1. ‘Daddy’s home’ at light heavyweight, but for how long?

Jon Jones is back. He’s the UFC’s 205-pound champ once more. At last, the natural order is restored. You know, for now.

Watching Jones dominate Alexander Gustafsson in the UFC 232 main event was almost enough to temporarily drive any concern about picograms and pictograms and all the rest of it completely out of view. But as he stood there with the belt around his waist, calling out Daniel Cormier with his swagger clearly very much intact, it was hard not to wonder whether MMA’s greatest problem child has really learned anything.

How long until we can stop holding our breath waiting for drug test results? How many months without a moving violation will it take before we stop worrying? Because the truth is that no one has won this particular title more than Jones. No one’s been stripped of it more times either. If he’s going to break that cycle now, he might have to change his whole life.

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