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Rashad Evans: Jon Jones arv har fått sig en törn

Många blev mycket besvikna när det visade sig att den före detta lätt-tungviktsmästaren Jon Jones testade positivt för två otillåtna substanser inför titelmatchen mot Daniel Cormier förra veckan.

Rashad Evans och Jones var tidigare vänner och träningspartners fram tills att Jones hoppade och  tog matchen mot Mauricio Rua när Evans skadade sig. Evans lämnade sedan Jackson-Wink och det mötte sedan varandra och har sedan dess begravt stridsyxan.

Det här kände Evans när han fick höra om att Jones åkt  fast i kontrollen:

I just felt huge disappointment. As a fan first, and as somebody who is closely associated with Jon…I just hate to see somebody that has so much potential to do so many great things have this kind of situation happen to them. In my opinion, he’s probably one of the greatest fighters to ever put on gloves but now his legacy is going to be associated with the asterisk of ‘was he clean?’ and all the other things that he is known for outside of the cage.

It’s very unfortunate. You look at Jon perform and what he’s been able to do – the body of work he’s been able to accomplish – and just look at the physical specimen of who Jon is, you just think that he doesn’t really need any kind of help with any kind of performance enhancing drugs. But this is a game of just trying to recover and making sure that you do what you need to do in order to train again. So maybe he got himself caught up trying to take something to help him recover.

What he took, I have no idea. It’s still yet to be confirmed, but it does look like he was trying to hide something or he was trying to balance something out if that’s in fact what he did get caught for.

I think he may have taken something that wasn’t exactly what he thought it was. I just can’t really see, in my mind, somebody that’s going to be tested as heavily as Jones knowingly taking something he’s going to get popped for…Jon has been one of the top tested athletes and he has a huge spotlight on him so I don’t think that he would be stupid enough to take something that he knows is banned.

It’s just unfortunate. In today’s MMA you’ve got to be really informed about what you put inside your body.

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