Dana White: Jon Jones 'comes right back and he fights for the title' when suspension is lifted

Jon Jones won't have to wait long to recapture the UFC light heavyweight title once his current suspension is finally lifted.

"He comes right back and he fights for the title," UFC president Dana White said on "The Jim Rome Show" Wednesday, according to MMAFighting.com's Shaun Al-Shatti. "He hasn't had the time that Anderson Silva's had, but he is the most dominant champion.

"If you look at the murderer's row of the 205-pound division that he went through, and he just went through it like a hot knife through butter, I mean, he's the man. So whenever he gets his stuff together, he'd come right back and fight for the title."

The former 205-pound kingpin was stripped of his title and suspended indefinitely at the end of April following his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run accident that left a pregnant woman with a fractured arm. Jones was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death or personal injury, a felony offense.

According to White, stripping Jones of the title was an easy decision based on his checkered history and the severity of the latest alleged incident.

We had gotten to the point where, you know, it was like if he had one more incident. And the level of the last incident obviously made it that much easier.

Obviously he's been stripped of the title, he's not fighting anymore, and he's got these legal issues he's got to deal with. Once he gets through those, he's either going to end up with a felony or jail time, or a felony and jail time. So I don't know how this thing is going to play out. We'll see how it goes.

Like I said, he's got these legal issues and he's got a civil suit against him. He's got a civil suit against him and all this other stuff. (We'll) see how he gets through this and then find out where his head is. How does he handle himself through this situation and after it? I mean, I gotta see from him that he's doing the right thing.