Interim UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones (pictured) has been slapped with a one-year suspension by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, the third-party company the UFC hired to conduct drug tests on their roster.
Jones became the first UFC fighter to enter arbitration with the USADA during last week’s hearing in Los Angeles regarding the flunked out-of-competition drug test he submitted on June 16. The independent three-person arbitrator panel announced its findings Monday and suspended Jones for the maximum the USADA is allowed – one year, retroactive to the July 6, 2016 date that the results returned.
Jones received a provisional suspension in July after testing positive for clomiphene and letrozole, a form of Tadalafil.