Tidigare denna månad briserade bomben att den nykrönta UFC-mästaren i lätt-tungvikt, Jon Jones, misslyckats i sitt dopingtest vid UFC 214. Kontrollen genomfördes kvällen innan han besegrade den tidigare mästaren och rivalen Daniel Cormier i galans huvudkort. Händelsen var den senaste av en rad substansrelaterade skandaler som gäckat Jones genom hela hans karriär. Dopingkontrollen har gjort att Jones status som titel-innehavare nu blivit ifrågasatt, även om USA:s Antidoping byrå (USADA), som utreder fallet, ännu inte fattat ett definitivt beslut.
Även Jones status som en av de största fighters i MMA-historien har nu blivit högst ifrågasatt. En av de som nyligen tyckt till om detta är den långvarige UFC-kommentatorn Joe Rogan som, vid en nylig sändning av sitt program, gick in på hur dopingkontrollen kan komma att påverka minnet av fightern Jon Jones.
MMAfighting rapporterar hans ord som följande:
Jon Jones, with this, becomes the number one f***up of all time, for sure, if he wasn’t already. This is the biggest one ever. We can only hope and pray that somehow or another there’s some mistake [with the test].
Here’s the thing, we don’t know what was really going on now [with Jones]. Now I think we are allowed to have complete, open speculation with zero concern for being respectful. After the dick pill thing you gotta go, ‘Look man, the dude was partying, he was taking some dick pills.’ Coke, I don’t give a f*** about coke. That’s not helping you. Then you hear about this and you go, ‘Wait a minute, what is this?’ I want to know what this is.
This is a weird one because if he was taking what you describe as some short-acting, quick-leaving your system steroid that makes you aggressive, you have to ask how long was he doing this for? Was he doing this during training? Did this amp him up? Did this help his work rate? Did this make him more aggressive and more confident in training. Did it add to his confidence when he was fighting? What is this? We don’t know.
Det återstår att se vad USADA till slut finner i sin utredning. Det ser dock inte särskilt lovande ut för Jon Jones i detta nu.
