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Jones (28-1) is considered one of the greatest fighters in Ultimate Fighting Championship history. However, his legacy is marred by multiple anti-doping violations throughout his career. The former two-division champion recently reiterated past claims that he’s never taken performance-enhancing substances.
Jon Jones’ UFC career remains tied to anti-doping controversies and GOAT debates
Jones was stripped of the interim UFC lightweight heavyweight title after testing positive for clomiphene and letrozole following his win over Ovince St. Preux in 2016. He again tested positive for a turinabol metabolite in 2017, which led to his stoppage win over Daniel Cormier in their rematch being overturned to a no contest.
While Jones tested positive for the M3 metabolite of oral turinabol in 2018 following his win over Alexander Gustafsson, “Bones” wasn’t penalized as the substance was deemed to be lasting effects from his previously failed drug test.
However, Jones refuses to accept his doping violations. The former UFC double champ insists that the failed drug tests were a result of tainted supplements and also claims that the substances found in his failed drug tests had no performance-enhancing effects.
“Never took steroids,” Jones told ALF Global. “It was a supplement found in my body. It was proven to come from a supplement company that I was using. It was a tainted supplement that I was using. The amount of this substance that was in my body was so small that it took very expensive scientists to be able to even find it and the supplement that was found in my body has zero performance-enhancing effects, zero. And that’s very well documented.”
Jones then addressed fans and fighters who diminish his accomplishments, claiming they don’t look at the facts and jump to conclusions.
“For some reason, the fans ignore all that, and they’re just like, ‘Something about steroids, he’s guilty.’ I never did and that was proven. It’s funny because fighters are like, ‘Jon Jones is a knucklehead, but he’s brilliant enough to do steroids and trick the UFC’s scientists.’ It’s like, which one is it? Am I the knucklehead or the mad genius?”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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