So if you haven't heard, the UFC is moving UFC 232 from Vegas to Los Angeles on a weeks notice because Jon Jones popped for PEDs again. The UFC and USADA and the California State Athletic Commission all seem to agree that this test result is merely residual steroids from the "pinch of salt in an Olympic swimming pool" amount of steroids that was previously in his system 18 months ago. Same drug and everything - turinabol.
Now a lot of people have a lot of opinions on this. Joe Rogan thinks it's all legit with Jon Jones, which is what he thought the first time as well. Dana White and Jeff Novitzy aka the Golden Snitch, the guy who runs the UFC's anti-doping program, both also seem to agree with that as well. Andy Foster, the head of the CSAC, is yet another legitimate, reliable party who says this is clearly just leftover from a year and a half ago. All that said, this all stinks like a steaming pile of horseshit.
Allow me to explain...
Jon Jones has already gotten caught with this exact same substance in his body 18 months ago. The same substance that was 100% confirmed to be in his body, and for which he could never find a tainted supplement that explained its presence. The same one that got him suspended. A suspension he got overturned by offering to snitch for USADA.
So if he gets popped for steroids again, while snitching for USADA, what happens? Does he get suspended? Does the deal go away? It kind of seems like a conflict of interest to be the organization in charge of testing one of their own assets. Jon Jones has repeatedly said he isn't providing any information on "fighters", but USADA has very publicly made it known that he is absolutely without a doubt providing them with information on someone. If they are trying to blow the roof off a major scandal in a different, much bigger sport and Jon Jones is providing valuable information that helps move them towards achieving that goal, wouldn't it be in their best interest to do everything that needed to be done to keep that deal in place?
On top of that, the numbers just don't really add up. Don't worry, I read a bunch of articles and reddit posts so I've got this whole thing all figured out.
Turinabol is supposedly known for getting out of the athlete's system quickly. Like out of your system in a couple of days or weeks quickly depending on the amount, and possibly months in rare cases. But it's been a year and a half and Jones passed like seven drug tests with zero sign of Turinabol until now. Not only that, but the first time he got caught there was approximately 20-80 picograms per millileter. Don't worry about what a picogram is, I have no idea either, it isn't important. What is important is that this time around Jones got caught with 60 picograms per liter in his system. So in a year and a half, the maximum amount of turinabol that was in Jonny Bones' system wasn't even cut in half. The fuck outta here with that nonsense.
This whole situation STINKS and it stinks like shit. I'm not hating on Jon Jones either, he's an absolute monster and hands down one of the most entertaining fighters in the world. I will 100% be watching the fight this weekend and I'm expecting him to show out. I just think entire ordeal seems super sketchy and more than likely Jon Jones just did Jon Jones shit again because he doesn't really give a fuck, and he figures USADA won't make an example of their star witness.
Or I could be totally wrong. Gotta love a good conspiracy though.
If you're a fight fan and haven't seen the first matchup, do yourself a favor...
Blood bath.