MMAjunkie<\/a>, UFC President Dana White gave his take on this chaotic situation. He maintained that Jon Jones is most likely innocent.<\/p>\n\u201cI haven\u2019t heard anything negative about Jon Jones leading up to this fight \u2013 nothing,\u201d White said. \u201cHe was willing to jump on a plane yesterday and go take a drug test \u2013 like, immediately. If I want to plan a PR for Jon Jones in two months, try pulling that together. It\u2019s tough to get Jon Jones. He\u2019s willing to do anything. So, I believe that Jon Jones is clean. He\u2019s in fight shape, and I believe that he\u2019s been doing the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
White also assured that this card has not been moved to keep Jon Jones in a fight that wouldn’t have been sanctioned in the state of Nevada. He reiterated what we already know, that Jon Jones has not technically failed a drug test, but that the Nevada State Athletic Commission simply didn’t have time to investigate this “atypical finding.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t do it,\u201d White assured. \u201cWe\u2019d pull the fight, and the (Cris Cyborg vs. Amanda Nunes title fight) would be the main event and the fight would roll. That\u2019s it. We\u2019d roll on. Jones would either go away forever, or \u2013 you know how I am \u2026 If these guys even doubted that something bad happened here and he was wrong or whatever, the fight\u2019s off. We\u2019d pull the fight. Jones didn\u2019t do anything wrong here. All the biggest experts, the smartest people in the world that deal with this are saying that he did not cheat, he didn\u2019t do anything. So how do we not do this fight?\u201d<\/p>\n
In his statement to MMAjunkie, Dana White also explained that the UFC is going to take a massive financial hit as a result of this Jon Jones situation. He expected a $6 million gate had the card occurred in Las Vegas as planned, but now expects a $1 million gate at The Forum.<\/p>\n
White added that fans that bought tickets for the UFC 232 card in Las Vegas will be refunded, and that tickets for the relocated UFC 232 card will go on sale posthaste.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for more details on this Jon Jones, UFC 232 drama as information emerges.<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 12\/23\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a drug test detected trace amounts of the banned substance turinabol in Jon Jones’ system, the UFC has been forced to move Jones’ title fight with Alexander Gustafsson \u2014 and the entire UFC 232 card it is headlining \u2014 from Las Vegas, Nevada, to the Forum in Inglewood, California. Speaking to MMAjunkie, UFC President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54459,"featured_media":277321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,10091,39610,39574],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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