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Alexander Gustafsson to Jon Jones: You Can Be on Rocket Fuel and I’ll Still Finish You

Alexander Gustafsson appears to be unfazed by the last-minute change of venue for his light heavyweight championship fight.

On Sunday, Dana White announced that UFC 232 would be moving from Las Vegas to California on one week’s notice because the Nevada Athletic Commission declined to license Jon Jones for the event. A sample collected on Dec. 9 revealed trace elements of Turinabol metabolite, the same banned substance for which Jones tested positive in relation to UFC 2014 in July 2017. In this instance, it was determined that the ex-light heavyweight champion retained a small amount of that substance in his system from the previous failed drug test, which was why the event was transported to the West Coast at the last minute.