Anyone who expected the latest Jon Jones fiasco to be a death knell for the UFC’s partnership with USADA is going to be disappointed.
UFC vice president of athlete health and performance Jeff Novitzky revealed Thursday during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience that the UFC has re-upped its agreement with USADA for a new deal in 2019 that will see the promotion significantly increase its testing output by a margin of “30 to 40 percent.”
Novitzky dropped the news during a two-hour discussion about Jones’ latest run-in with USADA — a run-in which led the promotion to uproot UFC 232 to California less than a week before the event was set to take place in Nevada.