There is evidence that suggests UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones has been using performance-enhancing drugs for his entire UFC career.
In Jan. 2015, Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO Laboratories, was interested in Jones’ testosterone-to-epitestosterone (T/E) ratio and total testosterone level leading up to his first fight with Daniel Cormier.
Conte did an interview with Sherdog and suspected that Jones’ ratios were odd. He said the UFC champion should be put on a short leash when it came to drug testing.
The Nevada Athletic Commission tested Jones on three separate occasions and came back with odd results. His ratio in the three tests were 0.29:1, 0.35:1 and 0.19:1. According to Conte, that is well below the normal ratio (1.3:1) for an average African-American male.
“These are highly suspicious for Jon Jones, in my opinion,” Conte told Sherdog. “This is the reason that sophisticated anti-doping officials do target testing. So based on what we see here, my opinion is Jon Jones should be on a very short leash and should be random tested here until they sort out why he has these anomalies.”
After his first fight with Cormier, the UFC teamed with USADA and began random drug testing all of their fighters. Since then, Jones has tested positive for a banned substances on two separate occasions.
