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So I'm sure everyone knows by now that Jones showed hot for cocaine in an out of competitor drug test on December 4th.
I am looking to get some opinions and maybe get a back and forth conversation on this....
The whole thing REEKS of a scandal to me. Jones is arguably the biggest name in the UFC right now, and rightfully so because his talents have earned him as much...
But, if you are a avid fan like I am, I don't see how you can't come to the same conclusion as me when I say this: there is some bull**** afoot.
For lots of reasons:
One: NSAC (the commission that regulates UFC fighters), can't seem to get their story straight. First, he shows hot for cocaine on a test that, according to them, wasn't testing for street drugs. Yet there it is, benzoylecgonine was found in his urine. For those that don't know: it's a metabolite in the body that provides evidence of cocaine usage in some way.
Two: the director of NSAC says the test results were an administrative oversight, which makes it sound like he shouldn't have been tested for it? Uhhhh... What? This is an entire 30 days prior to the fight with Cormier, and the fight wasn't pulled. Their argument for that was that he was tested numerous times after that and was clean, which really doesn't prove much since cocaine only stays in your system for something like 30 hours.
Furthermore, the tests (all of them) show an abnormal testosterone reading. Experts have claimed that, as an average for a black male, the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone is 1.3. None of Jones's tests in the month of December were anywhere close to that, with his lowest being .19.
Why is that a big deal? For those that don't know, the commission tests for PEDs (performance enhancers) by checking that testosterone ratio. If they aren't within the acceptable ratio set by the commission (6:1) then they are in trouble. Fighters could cheat that system by injecting synthetic epitestosterone into their system to make their ratio lower, which more or less means they could take all the steroids they want and be fine.
What does Jones' low ratio tell me? Either there is something very wrong with his testosterone levels (like severe medical problems, I would think, which wouldn't allow him to fight at the level he is), or he has been juicing.
However, none of this information came to light until after copies were obtained of his drug test results, and medical experts were like 'ugh, what?!' at his testosterone levels.
Other testing experts said that, if they were handling this, those low readings would be screaming PEDs to them, and they would have ordered further, more in depth testing. Such as a carbon isotope reading, which NSAC didn't say anything about until AFTER these experts were asking why this test wasn't done. Then out of nowhere, NSAC is like 'oh well we did the CIT test as well and he was clean there'. Only thing is, the results haven't been posted and the journalists who have requested to see this information under the Freedom of Information Act have yet to be responded to.
All sounds a little fishy to me.
Also, the UFC knew about the cocaine results in early December and decided to say and do nothing about it. I can kinda get that. This fight made them millions, and t was a fight that THEY needed to happen.
Oh, and the NSAC makes money off these fights too, so don't think they wouldn't have a motive for making sure this fight went down.
The commission argues that, under WADA (world anti-doping agency) rules, cocaine is not illegal outside of competition. Competition counts for the fight itself, and twelve hours before hand. Results have yet to come back on the fight night drug tests, I will also point out.
So their argument is that since it's not illegal to use outside of competition, there's no basis for having stopped the fight. Wrong. Cocaine may not be illegal to them in regards to testing athletes, but having and using cocaine IS illegal, at least in the US. And the commission does have a catch all policy that they can punish, at any time, any fighter who does anything that might look poorly upon combat sports. This, combined with all the other antics Jon Jones has been up to ( DWI wreck/arrest, MGM brawl with Daniel Cormier ), how can any of this NOT look poorly. How is Jones NOT suspended.
Oh and it violates the UFCs code of conduct as well. And, to top it all off, the UFC started its own out of competition drug testing program in order to make sure all the fighters are clean. It was a great idea and promoted the integrity of the sport. Weird then, that around the same time that Jones pops hot for cocaine, the UFC drops it drug testing program.
Hmmmmmm.
Thoughts? Opinions? Is this a scandal, or is this just a witch hunt?
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I am looking to get some opinions and maybe get a back and forth conversation on this....
The whole thing REEKS of a scandal to me. Jones is arguably the biggest name in the UFC right now, and rightfully so because his talents have earned him as much...
But, if you are a avid fan like I am, I don't see how you can't come to the same conclusion as me when I say this: there is some bull**** afoot.
For lots of reasons:
One: NSAC (the commission that regulates UFC fighters), can't seem to get their story straight. First, he shows hot for cocaine on a test that, according to them, wasn't testing for street drugs. Yet there it is, benzoylecgonine was found in his urine. For those that don't know: it's a metabolite in the body that provides evidence of cocaine usage in some way.
Two: the director of NSAC says the test results were an administrative oversight, which makes it sound like he shouldn't have been tested for it? Uhhhh... What? This is an entire 30 days prior to the fight with Cormier, and the fight wasn't pulled. Their argument for that was that he was tested numerous times after that and was clean, which really doesn't prove much since cocaine only stays in your system for something like 30 hours.
Furthermore, the tests (all of them) show an abnormal testosterone reading. Experts have claimed that, as an average for a black male, the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone is 1.3. None of Jones's tests in the month of December were anywhere close to that, with his lowest being .19.
Why is that a big deal? For those that don't know, the commission tests for PEDs (performance enhancers) by checking that testosterone ratio. If they aren't within the acceptable ratio set by the commission (6:1) then they are in trouble. Fighters could cheat that system by injecting synthetic epitestosterone into their system to make their ratio lower, which more or less means they could take all the steroids they want and be fine.
What does Jones' low ratio tell me? Either there is something very wrong with his testosterone levels (like severe medical problems, I would think, which wouldn't allow him to fight at the level he is), or he has been juicing.
However, none of this information came to light until after copies were obtained of his drug test results, and medical experts were like 'ugh, what?!' at his testosterone levels.
Other testing experts said that, if they were handling this, those low readings would be screaming PEDs to them, and they would have ordered further, more in depth testing. Such as a carbon isotope reading, which NSAC didn't say anything about until AFTER these experts were asking why this test wasn't done. Then out of nowhere, NSAC is like 'oh well we did the CIT test as well and he was clean there'. Only thing is, the results haven't been posted and the journalists who have requested to see this information under the Freedom of Information Act have yet to be responded to.
All sounds a little fishy to me.
Also, the UFC knew about the cocaine results in early December and decided to say and do nothing about it. I can kinda get that. This fight made them millions, and t was a fight that THEY needed to happen.
Oh, and the NSAC makes money off these fights too, so don't think they wouldn't have a motive for making sure this fight went down.
The commission argues that, under WADA (world anti-doping agency) rules, cocaine is not illegal outside of competition. Competition counts for the fight itself, and twelve hours before hand. Results have yet to come back on the fight night drug tests, I will also point out.
So their argument is that since it's not illegal to use outside of competition, there's no basis for having stopped the fight. Wrong. Cocaine may not be illegal to them in regards to testing athletes, but having and using cocaine IS illegal, at least in the US. And the commission does have a catch all policy that they can punish, at any time, any fighter who does anything that might look poorly upon combat sports. This, combined with all the other antics Jon Jones has been up to ( DWI wreck/arrest, MGM brawl with Daniel Cormier ), how can any of this NOT look poorly. How is Jones NOT suspended.
Oh and it violates the UFCs code of conduct as well. And, to top it all off, the UFC started its own out of competition drug testing program in order to make sure all the fighters are clean. It was a great idea and promoted the integrity of the sport. Weird then, that around the same time that Jones pops hot for cocaine, the UFC drops it drug testing program.
Hmmmmmm.
Thoughts? Opinions? Is this a scandal, or is this just a witch hunt?
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