{"id":125082,"date":"2015-01-07T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125082"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:19","slug":"white-jones-positive-test-great-thing-champ-return-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-jones-positive-test-great-thing-champ-return-better\/","title":{"rendered":"White: Jones Positive Test  A Great Thing, Champ Could Return Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/20MUa4Ym5Nc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was shocked, obviously, and this is one of those situations where it\u2019s so different than if a guy gets busted for performance-enhancing drugs.&nbsp;You worry about the person first, you know? You forget about the fighting and the work side of it. You worry about the person, Jon Jones as a person. He got checked into rehab, they\u2019re going to evaluate him and then we\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat happened was, so they do these tests leading up to a fight, these random drug tests, and he tested positive.&nbsp;No, (there was no talk of postponing the fight) because No. 1, he was healthy. No. 2, the reason you would stop a fight and the hammer would drop on a guy would be if he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(Daniel Cormier) was not because he didn\u2019t need to be. If he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, everything would have got shut down. The other thing people have to understand about this situation is Jon Jones was contracted to fight. We have a contract with him. Everybody thinks that we can just say, \u2018Hey, the fight\u2019s off. The fight\u2019s not happening.\u2019 Damn right he had the right to fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI talked to him yesterday before he went in, and I\u2019m hoping that I\u2019ll be able to talk to him tonight.&nbsp;He was in a good place going in there and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s in an even better place today. I look forward to talking to him today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you look at how shocked everybody was by this, nothing you saw in Jon Jones leading up to that fight would make you think that he used drugs,\u201d White said. \u201cIn a situation like this the last thing you worry about is his image right now. You worry about getting the guy healthy, he\u2019ll come back, and whether you like him or you don\u2019t like him, he\u2019s the baddest dude in the world. He\u2019s the pound-for-pound best guy in the world. What\u2019s even crazier is you do these tests to look for performance-enhancing drugs, the stuff he was doing, it hurts you. It doesn\u2019t help you in any way, it actually hurts you. So imagine how good this guy\u2019s going to be when he gets straight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEverything happens for a reason. It\u2019s a great thing this happened. It\u2019s a great thing this guy made a mistake. Who would have known? We would never know. We\u2019ll get him the help that he needs.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was shocked, obviously, and this is one of those situations where it\u2019s so different than if a guy gets busted for performance-enhancing drugs.&nbsp;You worry about the person first, you know? You forget about the fighting and the work side of it. You worry about the person, Jon Jones as a person. 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