To say Jon Jones’ UFC career has been turbulent in an understatement.
After run-in’s with the law, including a 2015 incident in which he fled the scene of a hit and run accident, Jones was expected to make his comeback at UFC 200 against Daniel Cormier. Instead Jones tested positive for a banned substance just prior to the match and was suspended for a year.
In an article penned by Damon Prather for Fox Sports, Jones is quoted as saying sex pills is what caused his last backslide and ruined his life.
“I did a lot of work to get back to UFC 200. A lot of cleaning up my life and my circle and just a lot of work. To fall back so far because a damn sex pill and to have people kind of assume that your life isn’t together, it was very hurtful,” Jones said recently. “It was very hurtful that people saw me as this guy who was just [expletive] up.”
“The truth of the matter is I’ve had my life pretty together for about the last two years. Ever since that hit-and-run, a lot has changed in my life,” Jones explained. “If I hadn’t have taken that sex pill, I would be looked at as I would be the champion again currently. The belt would be right here. I would have won at UFC 200 and people would have already been saying ‘wow, it’s so great to see the way Jon has turned his life around and he’s doing the right things and he’s becoming a man in front of our eyes’.”
Jones is currently working on making another comeback to the UFC.