(Editor’s note: This story originally published on March 19, 2018.)
If you want to tell the story of the time Jon Jones became the youngest champion in UFC history, you have to start with the dog. Its name was B.J., a seven-month-old German Shepard mix, and it was a somewhat recent acquisition for Jones when he showed up in Newark, N.J., for his crack at Mauricio Rua’s UFC light-heavyweight title on March 19, 2011.
