Daniel Cormier thinks UFC vice president of athlete health and performance Jeff Novitzky might be a little too close to the Jon Jones situation.
Since news of Jones’s latest controversy emerged over the weekend, this time a drug-testing abnormality discovered after an analysis of his last 18 months of tests dating back to his last failure in July 2017, Novitzky has gone to bat for Jones, making it clear that the metabolites found in Jones’s system are not indicative of a re-ingestion of a banned substance. The banned substance in question is oral Turinabol, an anabolic steroid that caused Jones to be flagged by the United States Anti-Doping Agency last year and led to a 15-month suspension.