Jon Jones fined $205,000, has license revoked by CSAC in doping case

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    One part of Jon Jones’ doping sanctions have been decided.

    The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) revoked the MMA license of Jones and fined him $205,000 at a hearing Tuesday at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton. Jones, the former UFC light heavyweight champion, tested positive for the steroid Turinabol in an in-competition drug test in relation to his fight with Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 last July.

    CSAC executive officer Andy Foster recommended that CSAC does not reinstate Jones until the conclusion of his USADA suspension, which has not yet been set. Jones’ CSAC license expires this coming August.

    Jones’ attorney Howard Jacobs did not contest the drug-test findings, but argued that Jones did not knowingly take the banned substance. Jones has vehemently denied taking the steroid on purpose. Jones’ defense centered around the fact that he passed drug tests in early July and again Oct. 11 in between the July 28 failure, which does not point to intentional use, per expert witness Paul Scott, an anti-doping researcher.

    None of Jones’ supplements tested came back positive for Turinabol. Jacobs said 15 supplements were tested, plus massage creams, and none were contaminated with the steroid.

    “This situation is like really, really crappy,” Jones said. “I don’t understand how any of this happened and how it got in my system.

    “Imagine being me. I have no clue how this happened. I’m just trying to figure it out just like everybody else.” Jones was grilled by commissioner Martha Shen-Urquidez over his past legal issues and his 2016 failed drug test. During the questioning, Jones admitted that he has never done his USADA tutorials, though they were signed by him. He said his management team did them for him and forged them.

    Jones, 30, is still facing sanctions from USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner. Jones is facing a four-year suspension in his USADA case as a repeat offender. He tested positive for the banned substance clomiphene and Letrozol in 2016 and was suspended one year for the violation after arbitration.

    At UFC 214, Jones defeated Cormier by third-round TKO to win the UFC light heavyweight belt, but the result was overturned by CSAC to a no contest last September when the positive drug test was confirmed. Due to that, the UFC then stripped Jones of the title and gave it back to Cormier.

    Jones (22-1, 1 NC), arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all-time, held the light heavyweight title from 2011 until 2015, when he was stripped by the UFC after a felony hit-and-run arrest. “Bones” has really never been defeated in the cage. The only defeat on his record was a controversial disqualification in 2009.

    Jones said Thursday at the hearing that he is not the same “knucklehead” he was years ago when that happened. He also maintained that he is not a cheater and “science has been kicking me in the ass.”

    “To purposely do steroids like a week before a fight and ruin all those months talking to all those kids, it would just be stupid,” Jones said. “I’m absolutely not the same person I was three years ago when I got into a hit-and-run car accident.”