The Jon Jones vs U.S. Anti-Doping Agency battle has reached a conclusion, and the winner is the USADA. By knockout. As MMA Fighting first reported, the USADA has given Jones the maximum punishment allowable, meaning he’s been banned from competing in the UFC for a full year. This, of course, was due to a failed drug test which Jones blamed on a contaminated sexual performance pill.
While the arbitrators of the case noted that Jones wasn’t a drug cheat, per se, he still was totally responsible for his careless actions.
“His degree of fault in fact verged on the reckless,” the panel declared. “On the evidence before the Panel, the Applicant is not a drug cheat. He did not know that the tablet he took contained prohibited substances or that those substances had the capacity to enhance sporting performance. However by his imprudent use of what he pungently referred to as a ‘dick pill’ he has not only lost a year of his career but an estimated nine million dollars. This outcome which he admits to be a wake-up call for him should serve as a warning to all others who participate in the same sport.”
Jones will be eligible to fight again next July. HOWEVER, he still has to deal with the Nevada Athletic Commission, who can decide that a year suspension isn’t enough and could give him a larger suspension, which would suspersede the USADA one. The saga continues.
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