Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is currently dealing with more drug testing issues following his July 29th fight with Daniel Cormier. Jones knocked Cormier out in the second round at UFC 214 but was later flagged by USADA for failing a test for steroids. When his “B-sample” also came back positive, Jon’s win was then overturned to a “No Contest,” and he was stripped of the UFC light heavyweight title once again.
While Daniel Cormier has urged fans to go easy on Jon Jones, former UFC bantamweight champ Miesha Tate isn’t really buying any excuses and says he should’ve known better. (via BloodyElbow.com)
“I don’t care if USADA says, Miesha Tate, don’t eat Cheerios the week of your fight.” The fighter continued. “Guess what, I ain’t eating Cheerios. That’s the rules. They make it so the sport is safe and clean, and we need to follow them.”
“You know the rules directly ahead of time,” Tate explained. “USADA hands out pamphlets, tons of information. They make it very very easy. If you have a question, if there’s anything that a doctor prescribes you, you have phone numbers, you have a website. You can run it through a number of people to verify if this is a safe product or not.
“I utilized this many times myself, just to be precautions. I have a slight thyroid disorder. My thyroid runs a little bit slow. I took a natural pig hormone, but I wanted to make sure that it was safe, it was okay. It was cleared, and it was alright, but I went through the process to make sure that what I was putting into my body — I sent all my supplements to USADA to have them cleared, and they’re happy to do that. And that gives me the reassurance because I don’t want to accidentally take something.”
Tate said, “But if you’re ‘accidentally’ speeding, and a police officer pulls you over, and said, ‘sorry sir, I was going 20 over, I didn’t realize,’ you’re still going 20 over, period. You can’t use ignorance as an excuse, and it needs to be 100% clean, not basically clean.”
