Earlier this month, it was revealed UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones tested positive for steroid use prior to his fight with Daniel Cormier at UFC 214.
Jones’ failed drug test came from a sample given to USADA the day before he knocked out Cormier to regain his light heavyweight title. The steroid Jones tested positive for is called Turinabol.
On Monday, Chael Sonnen appeared on The MMA Hour and said it was likely Jones was taking other performance-enhancing drugs. Sonnen, who once fought Jones for his title, is an expert on the subject of PED use and admits to taking them in the past.
“As far as (Turinabol), you’d have to go to a museum to find that. That’s not something that a person would take. To take that, you would traditionally take that in a stack. I don’t know what Jon did, I’m speculating off of what I’ve done. If they catch something like that, they missed the good stuff. So yeah, he’s got to deal with this. There’s no contaminated substance — this stuff is pretty hard to get. It’s pretty expensive if you do get it. I have found that commissions and public — the quicker you come clean, the better. That’s one guy’s opinion, but it’s mine. Jones is never going to do that in a million years. He’s going to lie in his inner circle. He’s going to take it to the grave. A lot of times, that will come back to bite you. If you did a dishonest act, sometimes the most honest thing you can do is to say ‘yeah, you got me.’”
