Positive Cocaine test reveal for Jon Jones on Dec. 4

Discussion in 'Boxing/MMA Talk' started by DontKnowMe, Jan 7, 2015.

  1. DontKnowMe

    DontKnowMe Anti-Social Networker

    Mixed martial arts superstar Jon Jones tested positive for benzoylecgonine, the main metabolite in cocaine, on Dec. 4, 2014, a month before his successful light heavyweight title defense last week against Daniel Cormier at the MGM Grand Garden. The commission had randomly tested Jones early in the month as part of its initiative to more stringently fight performance-enhancing drug usage in combat sports.

    Nevada follows the World Anti-Doping Agency code on drug testing matters. In the 2015 WADA Code, it defines in-competition and out-of-competition testing – a very important distinction.

    According to Appendix One of the WADA code, in-competition is defined thusly:

    "Unless provided otherwise in the rules of an international Federation or the ruling body of the event in question, 'In-Competition' means the period commencing twelve hours before a Competition in which the athlete is scheduled to participate through the end of such Competition and the Sample collection process related to such Competition."

    The definition of out-of-competition is a little easier to understand:

    "Any period which is not In-Competition."

    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-jo...2-after-positive-drug-test-075021247-mma.html
     
  2. DontKnowMe

    DontKnowMe Anti-Social Networker

    Because the test was done more than 12 hours before the fight he could not be suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission and was still allowed to fight.
    Jones has also checked into rehab.
     
  3. Walnuts

    Walnuts All-Pro

    So that Diaz kid is always getting suspended for weed, but Jones does coke and it's "meh let him fight"? That makes toooootal sense.
     
  4. CaptainStubing

    CaptainStubing Gave her a Dirty Sanchez

    Cocaine is a helluva drug
     
  5. Walnuts

    Walnuts All-Pro

    Helluva shirtty one. Never understood how anyone could get hooked on it. I mean it's a little fun for a minute here and there but gawd after not very long it just becomes straight misery.
     
  6. DawkinsINT

    DawkinsINT Tebow free since 9/5/2015.

    I completely understand how one becomes hooked on it. It was my favorite drug when I did such things. It is misery after the first bump though...you never recapture that first feeling, and all you seek is more of it.
     
  7. Walnuts

    Walnuts All-Pro

    It was simply not something I ever wanted to keep doing beyond a night or two, but if there's one thing I've ever learned in my many years of chemical experimentation, it's that what "works" for one person might well not be desirable at all to the next. Just the way it goes.
     
  8. CaptainStubing

    CaptainStubing Gave her a Dirty Sanchez

    That's correct. Coke was always my favorite back in my wild days. Absolutely loved the stuff but a lot of the people I knew preferred other things.
     
  9. SportsChump

    SportsChump Well-Known

  10. CaptainStubing

    CaptainStubing Gave her a Dirty Sanchez

    The almighty dollar
     
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  11. SportsChump

    SportsChump Well-Known

    Sounds like UFC is becoming too much like boxing.
     
  12. DontKnowMe

    DontKnowMe Anti-Social Networker


    Because the WADA rules suck and they probably couldn't suspend him legally. The funny the about the test is that he wasn't even supposed to be tested for cocaine in an out of competition test.
     
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  14. CaptainStubing

    CaptainStubing Gave her a Dirty Sanchez

  15. ICECOLD

    ICECOLD 1st Stringer

  16. SportsChump

    SportsChump Well-Known

    Someone must have told him rehab was for quitters