Jon Jones
In the history of the sport perhaps no major star has repeatedly did more to damage their own reputation than Jon Jones.
A red flag was first raised when he tested positive for cocaine during a pre-fight test for a UFC 182 title fight against Daniel Cormier in 2014, but since the drug wasn’t on the banned list, the fight continued.
Just a few months after winning the fight it emerged that Jones had fled the scene of a hit-and-run incident after hitting a rental car into a pregnant woman’s vehicle.
Jones was subsequently stripped of the UFC 205lb title and suspended indefinitely, but later that year after being sentenced to 18-months of supervised probation, he was allowed to return to the Octagon.
During fight week for a headlining rematch with Cormier at the historic UFC 200 event that summer he was then sensationally pulled from the card after testing positive for two banned substances, Clomiphene and letrozole.
Jones argued that the substances must have come from an off-brand sexual enhancement Cialis pill he’d taken, and eventually USADA accepted the product was tainted and he only received a one-year suspension.
A year later he was again in trouble with USADA after testing positive for the banned steroid turinabol prior to another victory over Daniel Cormier, leading to a 15 month suspension after again managing to successfully argue that this had been the result of another tainted supplement.
Jones will now return to action again in December, but whatever happens from this point forward, his record has become permanently tainted by his past transgressions.
