New Delhi, July 30 -- GRETNA, Neb. - Anthony Smith spent nine years in the UFC building a reputation as one of the most durable fighters the light heavyweight division had seen in that era. He fought Jon Jones for the title. He absorbed punishment that ends careers and kept going back. The name he built through that willingness now carries three felony charges in Sarpy County, Nebraska, none of them connected to anything that happened inside an octagon.

Smith, 37, was arrested Monday after an altercation at a bar in Gretna, a suburb southwest of Omaha, in which he allegedly threatened to kill his wife if she refused to get into his vehicle and go home with him. According to a statement from the Sarpy County District Attorney's Office, Sm...