Former TUF contestant Frank Lester is standing behind his teammate, Jon Jones, after Jones was notified of a failed drug test.
Lester took to Facebook last night to defend the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, going so far as to call it all a “set up”:
I was just at dinner sitting next to Jon Jones when he got the phone call about this failed drug test. Supposedly the story is between weigh ins and fight night he took a oral steroid. Which makes zero sense since it wouldn’t do anything at all for Jon to do so. It takes weeks for steroids to build up in your system to be a performance enhancer. Jon was devastated to say the least. This is a set up, straight up, no athlete would test clean his entire fight camp, and then randomly take some cheap fucking oral steroid betweens weigh ins and fight night knowing he would be tested once he got done fighting. This is a straight set up. They are trying to ruin this kids life. It makes no sense and Jon wouldn’t do it. Let’s see what happens with all of this but I truly believe Jon is innocent & I hope that all of you will give him a fair chance before you send hateful judgements his way.
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I was just at dinner sitting next to Jon Jones when he got the phone call about this failed drug test. Supposedly the…
Posted by Frank Lester on Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Not everyone in the thread believed Lester’s theory, though.
One commentator opined:
Frank lester clearly you dont know shit about oral steroids..Halotesin works almost instantaneously so thats your theory f**ked
Another asked:
Who wants to set him up? UFC? They need him he’s a draw
What do all of you, the Jiu-Jitsu Times readers, think? Did Jon Jones take steroids with the intent of enhancing his performance, or is he the victim of what could be the biggest set up in sports history?
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