UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones needs his skilled document amended following the inside track that UFC and the USA Anti-Doping Company shall be split techniques this time. Particularly, Jones needs a no-contest struck from his document.
USADA introduced on Wednesday that its guarantee with UFC would come to an finish on Dec. 31 later the 2 events failed to achieve a unutilized guarantee. Jones described himself as a survivor of the drug checking out program when reacting to the inside track.
“Man, I survived USADA,” Jones tweeted on Wednesday. “First, they said I was guilty of having picograms. Then they considered me innocent. Next picograms became legal. Guess what I’m still here, still unbeaten. That B.S. no-contest over [Daniel Cormier] needs to be taken off my record. I’ve never cheated this sport and I will stand by that until the day I die.”
Jones is regarding his highlight-reel knock out of Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 on July 29, 2017. Jones prohibited Cormier with a head kick and follow-up punches to recapture the UFC sunny heavyweight name. The California Shape Athletic Fee due to this fact introduced that Jones examined certain for turinabol metabolite, a blocked substance. The combat consequence was once overturned, Jones was once stripped of the name and Cormier was once reinstated as champion.
That incident was once a ways from Jones’ most effective run-in with athletic commissions and anti-doping techniques. Jones examined certain for benzoylecgonine, the principle metabolite of cocaine in a random drug check performed in December 2014. Jones was once authorised to compete at UFC 182 later passing a next check as it was once now not a blocked out-of-competition substance. Jones additionally withdrew from UFC 200 all the way through combat pace later checking out certain for clomiphene, an anti-estrogen substance, and letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor forward of a scheduled combat with Cormier.
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UFC even uprooted all the UFC 232 card from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on snip realize later inconsistencies together with his drug check. The CSAC enthusiastic a hint quantity of turinabol which docs attributed to a long-term “pulsing effect” of the M3 metabolite detected in 2017. Jones was once authorised to compete later the fee enthusiastic incorrect proof of Jones readministering turinabol or taking advantage of enhanced efficiency.
Jones alluded to his day substance virtue in a since-deleted tweet however denied the usage of steroids.
“Yeah, I became the youngest champion in the sport’s history,” Jones stated in a deleted tweet captured via MMA Junkie. “Probably the youngest millionaire in the sport’s history. Unfortunately, I didn’t handle it correctly and became a bit of a party boy. Definitely doesn’t qualify me to be a steroid cheat. You know nothing about being a star athlete.”