Jon Jones' Agent Would 'Almost Bet Life' His Client Took Tainted Supplement
Jon Jones' Agent Would 'Almost Bet Life' His Client Took Tainted Supplement
Jon Jones' agent Malki Kawa claims a tainted supplement is the cause of his client's latest potential USADA infraction.
The widest ride in MMA history continues its corkscrews and loops.
After Jones Jones regained his light heavyweight title with a vicious third-round stoppage of Daniel Cormier at last month's UFC 214, word spread via TMZ on Tuesday night that Jones had failed another drug test and was facing a four-year suspension.
Speaking on The MMA Hour Wednesday, Jones' agent denied any wrongdoing on Jones' part.
"I can almost bet my life on it that this is another tainted supplement," Kawa said. "You've got to just take a look at the testing and how this thing went down. Jon passed two tests, July 6 and July 7... and in passing those two tests, they test for all of that stuff we failed for. So therefore, you're talking about from the day he passed that test until the day before the fight, he would've had to have ingested something that would've caused this test to come out positive."
This is the second time Jones has been dinged on a such an infraction. Prior to his scheduled UFC 200 showdown opposite Cormier in July 2016, Jones tested positive for clomiphene and letrozol, canceling their bout and prompting a one-year suspension. Later, a tainted sexual enhancement drug was determined to be the cause of that failed test, and to Kawa, this latest case is another misunderstanding. Something just doesn't add up for him and his team.
"I'm encouraging everyone to go out there and take a look at the tests he passed and the test he failed," Kawa said. "It's a three-week window the month of the fight. Jon has passed seven unannounced tests, and the one he's going to fail is the one that's announced? It's weird to me. There's a lot of things here that don't add up, and to the UFC, it doesn't add up.
"The UFC knows. They look at his tests on the 6th and the 7th, and he passed both of those. There's nothing in his system," he continued. "So for him to start doing steroids, especially the steroid they're saying he took, he would've had to have been doing that steroid for a while for it to actually do anything. He just took it to take it? I mean, to me, there's a lot of issues with this. That's why I just wish... they would change the way they released information, absolutely, because I think that if the B sample comes back negative, then this man just got crushed again for no reason."
Kawa maintained that Jones and his camp would fight this latest allegation. They are having Jones' B sample tested and sending an "expert" to ensure the situation is properly handled. Kawa told host Ariel Helwani he expects this result to come back in two weeks.
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After Jones Jones regained his light heavyweight title with a vicious third-round stoppage of Daniel Cormier at last month's UFC 214, word spread via TMZ on Tuesday night that Jones had failed another drug test and was facing a four-year suspension.
Speaking on The MMA Hour Wednesday, Jones' agent denied any wrongdoing on Jones' part.
"I can almost bet my life on it that this is another tainted supplement," Kawa said. "You've got to just take a look at the testing and how this thing went down. Jon passed two tests, July 6 and July 7... and in passing those two tests, they test for all of that stuff we failed for. So therefore, you're talking about from the day he passed that test until the day before the fight, he would've had to have ingested something that would've caused this test to come out positive."
This is the second time Jones has been dinged on a such an infraction. Prior to his scheduled UFC 200 showdown opposite Cormier in July 2016, Jones tested positive for clomiphene and letrozol, canceling their bout and prompting a one-year suspension. Later, a tainted sexual enhancement drug was determined to be the cause of that failed test, and to Kawa, this latest case is another misunderstanding. Something just doesn't add up for him and his team.
"I'm encouraging everyone to go out there and take a look at the tests he passed and the test he failed," Kawa said. "It's a three-week window the month of the fight. Jon has passed seven unannounced tests, and the one he's going to fail is the one that's announced? It's weird to me. There's a lot of things here that don't add up, and to the UFC, it doesn't add up.
"The UFC knows. They look at his tests on the 6th and the 7th, and he passed both of those. There's nothing in his system," he continued. "So for him to start doing steroids, especially the steroid they're saying he took, he would've had to have been doing that steroid for a while for it to actually do anything. He just took it to take it? I mean, to me, there's a lot of issues with this. That's why I just wish... they would change the way they released information, absolutely, because I think that if the B sample comes back negative, then this man just got crushed again for no reason."
Kawa maintained that Jones and his camp would fight this latest allegation. They are having Jones' B sample tested and sending an "expert" to ensure the situation is properly handled. Kawa told host Ariel Helwani he expects this result to come back in two weeks.
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