{"id":489765,"date":"2026-02-19T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:54:17","slug":"justin-jaynes-suspended-18-months-for-cocaine-faces-nevada-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489765\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Jaynes Suspended 18 Months For Cocaine; Faces Nevada Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nevada State Athletic Commission<\/a> (NSAC<\/a>) has suspended Justin Jaynes retroactively for 18 months after a failed drug test following his most recent MMA fight.<\/p>\n

Per Damon Martin of MMA Fighting<\/a>, Jaynes will be eligible to compete again after April 24, 2027 — a suspension that goes back to his fight with Marlon Gonzales at Tuff-N-Uff 149 on October 25.<\/p>\n

Jaynes tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a cocaine metabolite.<\/p>\n

During the NSAC meeting to approve the measure, chairman Dallas Haun implied that another drug-related sanction against Jaynes could result in “Guitar Hero” being outright banned for life by the commission.<\/p>\n

“I have a problem, the third drug offense,” Haun said. “The proposed adjudication agreement I think is fine, but I think we need to add that if Mr. Jaynes comes back for any drug-related [offense] then he will be barred from the state of Nevada permanently, would be my input.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the suspension, Jaynes was fined $200 and had to pay $250.60 in prosecution fees.<\/p>\n

The status of Jaynes’ victory over Marlon Gonzales in October is unclear. Martin reports the commission upheld the victory; however, Tapology <\/a>lists the fight as a no-contest.<\/p>\n

Jaynes, who is 17-11 in MMA, fought for the UFC in 2020 and 2021. Jaynes earned a performance bonus in his debut with a 41-second finish of Frank Camacho, but he then lost to Gavin Tucker, Gabriel Benitez, Devonte Smith, and Charles Rosa before being cut by the promotion.<\/p>\n

Jaynes went 1-3 after being released by the UFC and lost to Lloyd Mix in a bare-knuckle boxing bout last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has suspended Justin Jaynes retroactively for 18 months after a failed drug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,247523,785,29101,64340,64341,85],"class_list":["post-489765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-justin-jayne","tag-mma","tag-nevada-athletic-commission","tag-nevada-state-athletic-commission","tag-nsac","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}