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Former UFC light heavyweight
champion John Jones will undergo drug testing as part of the US Anti-Doping
Agency for his return to battle with Alexander Gustafsson.
But Jones decided to go through the additional
tests offered by the California Athletic Commission, which recently granted him
a temporary license to fight.
CSAC executive director Andy Foster told MMAjunkie
about Jones' decision on Wednesday. Earlier this week, attorney Jones Howard
Jacobs said the final decision has not yet been made. Jacobs did not respond to
subsequent requests for comments.
Jones' participation in the additional tests
conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association was not a requirement for
his license. But several commissioners told the 31-year-old wrestler that the
signing would improve his reputation.
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"For example, I would like to fall asleep and
eliminate doubts once and for all," Commissioner Martha Shen-Urkvides told
Jones at a hearing last week in Sacramento. "And for people to believe
that you are so talented that you are the best, and that you can win the battle
simply, and that this is John Jones, and get rid of these doubts once and for
all."
As a sweetener, the commission essentially agreed
to pay the extra effort by deducting the costs of the VADA services from the $
205,000 fine Jones paid for the positive steroid test at UFC 214, which also
cost him his license. Initially, Jones seemed to be open to the idea of
testing. Later, Jacobs clarified that his client "basically agrees"
with VADA, but he needed to see the fine print of what was required.
"We need to understand what we agree on, how
much VADA checks when they check what their limitations are," said Jacobs.
On Monday, Jacobs told MMAjunkie that the CSAC
proposal to prove VADA had "some problems," which only said that
Jones would test productivity tools, not drugs of abuse. Jacobs did not go into
details.
VADA, chaired by the former Nevada Athletic
Commission, Dr. Margaret Goodman, performs comprehensive Olympic-style drug
tests, such as the UFC USADA anti-doping partner. However, unlike USADA, VADA
does not manage its own results and transmits the results of the tests directly
to the sports commissions in the battles in which they participated.
At the hearing, Jones Foster harshly criticized
the USADA, claiming that the CSAC erred in its authority to the USADA. In the
future, Foster said, the USADA should be responsible only for collecting the
results of the drug tests and sending them to the commission.
Having received a license from CSAC, Jones
overcame a regulatory obstacle to the fight against Alexander Gustafsson, whom
he won in 2013, possibly in the biggest light heavyweight battle in UFC
history. Now Jones can get a license from NSAC, which sees the rematch on
December 29 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Jones will be evaluated for drugs by the NSAC, as
well as by the UFC USADA anti-doping partner, who authorized him twice for
anti-doping violations caused by positive drug tests before the UFC 200 and
after UFC 214.
UFC President Dana White said that at the moment
Jones and Gustafsson collide, the light heavyweight title currently held by
Daniel Kormier, Jones' planned opponent in relation to his two anti-doping
violations.
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