UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping thinks he has the inside scoop on Jon Jones' recent doping violation.
On Thursday, Bisping told "MMA on SiriusXM" he'd heard Jones did not test positive for a tainted supplement as has been widely reported, but for a sex drug similar to Cialis that may have contained banned anti-estrogen substances.
"It turns out Jon Jones didn't take the estrogen blockers or whatever it was and, therefore, he may be coming back sooner rather than later," Bisping said, according to Thomas Myers of MMAmania.com. "I hear that the supplement in question - and it's not even a supplement - was a sex aid, Cialis, but it was a generic version - it wasn't the brand name. It apparently has estrogen blockers in it. That's what he took and he's maybe just looking at a little slap on the wrist."
These comments echo those made by UFC president Dana White earlier this week, who said Jones wasn't busted for estrogen blockers but for "something else."
Jones is pursuing an appeal to avoid the maximum penalty for an out-of-competition drug-test failure that was reported on July 6, three days before he was scheduled for the main event of UFC 200. The doping violation forced Jones off the card.
The last high-profile fighter to blame a positive drug test on a sex supplement was former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. In his case, the appeal failed and he served a full one-year suspension under pre-USADA jurisdiction. Under the UFC's relationship with USADA that started last July, Jones could be facing a suspension of up to two years.
