Jon Jones: Failed Drug Tests “So Small Can’t Affect Your Performance”

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones understands there will be people who doubt his skills over the failed drug tests.

But as far as Jones is concerned, nothing he took was large enough to give him any added performance enhancers.

Jones returns to action later this year against Alexander Gustafsson in a rematch. He discussed his thoughts during an appearance on Jackson Wink MMA Academy’s JW RAW.

“I would say that those would be people looking for an excuse not to give it to me, not to give credit where it’s due,” Jones said (thanks to MMA Fighting for transcribing). “Because in the first situation, it was proven — well, in both situations, whatever was in me chemically was proven scientifically that the amounts were so small that there was no way possible to affect my performance in a positive or a negative way. “The two times where I’ve failed drug tests for performance enhancers, it’s been so small that it can’t affect your performance.

“The dick pill situation, that was proven that it was a mistake,” Jones said. “Who takes a male enhancement pill expecting to fight better? I mean, nobody. We actually found the company, we found the exact pills, we ordered the pills and the pills came back with stuff in it that wasn’t supposed to be in there. Such a small amount that it’s not going to make you fight any better or make you stronger.

“Then in the second situation, we just found out to have USADA say ‘the amount of steroids we found in your body Jon, it was like taking a pinch of salt and throwing it in an Olympic size swimming pool’. It was such a small amount that it’s pretty obvious that this was an accident. And then for this to be something that got into your body two weeks before the fight — so two weeks before the fight, you took a pinch of steroids and threw it in an Olympic size swimming pool. It’s very clear that this is nothing that helped you knock out Daniel Cormier.

“For anybody who’s saying, ‘Well, he must have been cheating,’ it’s like, okay, after what I just said, if you still want to call me a cheater, then you just don’t want to admit that I’m (expletive) pretty good at this.”