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Jon Jones' Attorney Claims Tests Prove Supplement was Tainted
Jon Jones tested positive for prohibited substances prior to UFC 200 in July. He was subsequently removed from his scheduled headlining bout with Daniel Cormier. Jones has yet to find out what sort of disciplinary action he'll face – both from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and the Nevada Athletic Commission – but it could be far less severe than initially anticipated.
At a hearing in August, the NAC revealed Jones had tested positive for Hydroxy Clomiphene (an anti-estrogenic agent) and Letrozole metabolite (an aromatase inhibitor) in his June 16 out-of-competition drug screen.
Jones' attorney, Howard Jacobs, during a recent episode of The Luke Thomas Show on SiriusXM, his client's positive test result stemmed from a contaminated product. He claimed that both Jones' team and USADA had the product tested, coming to the same conclusion, that it was tainted.
“We’ve been able to establish the source of the prohibited substances,” said Jacobs. “It came from a product that Jon took that was not labelled with either of these substances. We had it tested; the product was contaminated with both of them. I know USADA also independently had the product tested; their testing confirms what we found. We then sent essentially the same pills that we had had tested to be tested by USADA’s lab, which also found the same thing. Pretty much every time it’s been tested, it’s shown that the product is contaminated with both Clomiphene and Letrozole.”
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With the testing now complete, Jones' outcome should be determined within the next few weeks. He is slated to go into an arbitration hearing with USADA on Oct. 31 in Los Angeles, and then faces the NAC on Nov. 10 in Las Vegas.
While he was initially looking at a likely one-year suspension from USADA, proof of a tainted product should see his sanctioning reduced.
“It should definitely lead to a significant reduction; that’s our position,” said Jacobs. “The way the anti-doping rules, at least with the UFC program, are written, they mirror the World Anti-Doping Code to some extent. In a case like this, you can’t argue that you have no fault if you take a supplement or product that’s contaminated, but you can argue that you’re not significantly at fault, which gives you the ability to argue for a reduced sanction.”
Similar cases in the past have seen fighters like Yoel Romero and Tim Means have their sanctions reduced to six-month suspensions in dealing directly with USADA. Jones, however, is going through an arbitration process, so there is no precedent in that process to reference.
Regardless of the USADA arbitration outcome, Jones will also still have to go before the Nevada Athletic Commission for its determination.
