{"id":377140,"date":"2021-02-22T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=377140"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:43:48","slug":"video-ou-football-player-spencer-jones-seriously-injured-after-street-fight-with-mma-practitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-ou-football-player-spencer-jones-seriously-injured-after-street-fight-with-mma-practitioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | OU football player Spencer Jones seriously injured after street fight with MMA practitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spencer Jones, a wide receiver for OU football, sustained serious injuries during a bathroom brawl<\/a> with a young mixed martial arts practitioner.<\/p>\n

Accounts of this fight between the OU football star and MMA specialist, which left the former with a badly damaged eye, vary depending on the source.<\/p>\n

Woodrow Glass, the attorney representing Jones, claims that the football star was attempting to deescalate the situation before winding up on the wrong side of a potentially career-changing beatdown.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jones’ surgeon] came out of that surgery saying he\u2019s extraordinarily lucky at this point, that he\u2019s lucky he didn\u2019t lose the eye altogether,\u201d the Jones lawyer said (via OU Daily<\/a>). \u201cAnd so he was able to do some things surgically to rebuild that orbital socket and thinks everything is eventually going to come back to normal, but it\u2019s going to take a while for him to fully recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was trying to de-escalate that situation,\u201d he added. \u201cBut unfortunately, it wasn\u2019t de-escalated despite his best efforts, and he became the victim of this vicious assault you\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Glass’ account paints Jones as the victim, other sources assert that the OU football player started the fight\u2014ostensibly without knowing his foe was an experienced martial artist. Video of the incident, which was obtained by Barstool Sports<\/a>, seems to corroborate that version of the story.<\/p>\n

See the video, which shows Jones spewing profanity at a much smaller person, below:<\/p>\n

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OU football player Spencer Jones picked a fight against a guy with a decade of MMA training at an OU bar this past weekend. <\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t end well for him and he almost lost his eye. He is currently recovering from eye surgery. pic.twitter.com\/OuvgyppljM<\/a><\/p>\n

— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) February 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n