Jon Jones busted for coke. Enters rehab.

The athletic commisions set the rules for temporary suspensions. It's still bullshit when it comes to weed. Alcohol is more dangerous than weed, and neither one are performance enhancing. No one gets suspended for drinking beer.

 

You remember how energetic Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, n Ric Flair were n the ring....


Aaron Pryor, Pernell Whitaker, Camacho, Chavez....COCAINE is a hell of drug....

 

The difference is that marijuana metabolites can linger for weeks or months. Cocaine is out of your system in a couple days. That's why it's so much more common for fighters to fail drug tests for weed. I highly doubt Nick Diaz was under the influence in his fight with Gomi.

 

I'm reading rumors online from 2011 / 2012 about Jones being into coke. It would make sense. It seems unlikely that he decided to try it just before a big fight and got caught so early. Lots of people do it for years before it catches up with them or they decide to quit.

 

no wonder jones is able to stay below 205 despite his frame.

 

That might mean he just came off a cycle. I wonder if they test for total testosterone, estradiol, LH, and FSH.

 

Motherfucker, mother fucker, mother fucker.

I hate PEDs so fucking much. I hate PED users, PED sympathizers, PED apathetics, PED apologists, PED promoters....

The next time we see Jones in an mma cage should be 2018. A second time it should be never.

 

Cocaine isn't a PED, but it does tend to make you more aggressive and confident. Maybe it made him think he could get away with a steroid cycle.

100% speculation of course. This one test isn't proof of anything, except that he did coke in early December.

 

He then tested even lower at 0.19-1

 

According to the numbers I'm looking at, his total testosterone was at 490 ng/dL. Lower than I'd expect, but in the normal range. His epitestosterone was at 2700 ng/dL. That gives a T/E ratio of 0.19.

I know a lot about steroids in general, but not epitestosterone. I don't know how that number could be so high unless he was taking it to mask higher testosterone levels in the weeks before the test. The ratio itself wouldn't give him a performance advantage. It just points to him taking epitest (not a PED) to avoid having too high of a T/E ratio in the weeks before this test was done. I don't know of any reason to take epitest except to try to hide a real steroid cycle.

 

Like it or not, this signals the trailhead of a destructive path for Jones. With his spotlight, his stress, his access, this will not end with a miraculous rehab-fueled recovery.

That being said, he still manhandled chubby.

 

No, manhandled more in the sense that he was able to push Cormier around.

 

I don't know if this test can be considered proof of anything. As far as I know, no one takes epitest unless they're trying to hide a real steroid cycle. I have no idea if it's possible for the ratio to be that low naturally. It just doesn't look good for Jones.

Has anyone been suspended for having a low T/E ratio? I never learned much about epitestosterone. I'm not a professional athlete, so I never tried to hide my cycles.

 

Yeah, it just looks suspicious. It might or might not be enough evidence for a suspension.

I'd love to know his previous test numbers too. They had to have been in the normal range before, or we would have heard about it.

 

His total testosterone was normal. His epitestosterone was at several times the top of the normal range. I don't see how cocaine could have elevated his epitest level to a number that high. Maybe there's some possible explanation other than him taking epitestosterone on purpose.

Having a ratio that low seems unlikely in a natural athlete. I'd think they would have told us if it had happened before. I wonder if they release the test numbers at all if everything looks normal.

 

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/1/7...petition-drug-tests-all-show-abnormal-hormone

His testosterone level in the first test was 59 ng/dL. The normal range is 300 - 1200. There's no possible way his testosterone could have been that low unless he was coming off a cycle. Or if he was castrated or something. That's more proof to me that he was cheating than the 3rd test with the elevated epitestosterone.

The only other explanation I can think of (mentioned in the article) is that the lab screwed up. 3 times in a row somehow.