Den tidigare UFC-mästaren i lätt-tungvikt Jon Jones kommer att som bekant göra comeback i oktagonen mot svenske Alexander Gustafsson vid UFC 232 den 29:e december.
Jones har inte fightats i oktagonen sedan hans match mot Daniel Cormier vid UFC 214 förra året, i en match som han först vann genom knockout, men som sedan ändrades till no-contest efter att Jones testat positivt för turinabol.
Efter detta har Jones fått motta massiv kritik från MMA-profiler och fans och enligt många av dessa bör hans bedrifter inom sporten ha en asterisk bredvid sig på grund av hans båda doping avstängningar, där den första kom 2016.
Den tidigare mästaren blev i dagarna intervjuad i podcasten Jackson-Wink där han besvarade kritiken:
I would say that those would be people looking for an excuse not to give it to me, not to give credit where it’s due. In both situations, whatever was in me chemically was proven scientifically that the amounts were so small that there was no way possible to affect my performance in a positive or a negative way. The two times where I’ve failed drug tests for performance enhancers, it’s been so small that it can’t affect your performance.
Jones fortsatte med att kommentera USADA:s (USA:s anti-doping byrå) fynd i utredningen av honom där han menade att den mängd turinabol han hade i blodet var så pass liten att den inte påverkade hans prestation nämnvärt i matchen mot Cormier:
The d–k pill situation, that was proven that it was a mistake, Who takes a male enhancement pill expecting to fight better. I mean nobody. We actually found the company, found the exact pills, we ordered the pills and the pills came back with stuff in it that wasn’t supposed to be in there. Such a small amount that it’s not going to make you fight any better or be stronger.
Then in the second situation, we just found out to have USADA say ‘the amount of steroids we found in your body Jon, it was like taking a pinch of salt and throwing it in an Olympic size swimming pool’. It was such a small amount that it was pretty obvious this was an accident. For this to be something that got into your body two weeks before the fight. So two weeks before the fight, you took a pinch of steroids and threw it in an Olympic size swimming pool. It’s clear this is nothing that helped you knock out Daniel Cormier.
Jon Jones avslutade med att besvara alla de som kallar honom för fuskare
To answer your question — to anybody who would say ‘well he must have been cheating’ — after what I just said, if you still want to call me a cheater, you just don’t want to admit that I’m f–king pretty good at this.
