{"id":54175,"date":"2025-08-09T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54175\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:36:07","slug":"ufc-white-house-bound-jones-returns-to-official-drug-testing-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54175\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House Bound? Jones Returns To Official Drug Testing Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jon Jones\u2019 short-lived UFC retirement is officially over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, Jones\u2019 name has officially returned to the UFC drug testing pool. This is strong evidence that Jones is doing more than social media baiting, because returning to the testing pool is a significant commitment for the athlete that involves random testing and location tracking. Given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/12\/1\/20990600\/jon-jones-mocks-fans-that-doubted-his-innocence-after-usada-rules-change\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jones\u2019 complicated history with drug tests and drug testers<\/a>, it\u2019s a clear sign that he\u2019s serious about his comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Like Jones, former double champion Conor McGregor also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/2\/24479282\/conor-mcgregor-shows-up-on-ufcs-official-drug-test-registry-but-does-it-mean-anything-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to the testing pool<\/a> and has expressed interest in the UFC White House event. If that duo is able to keep it together and get back in shape, the White House card scheduled for July 4, 2026 could turn out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/4\/24461530\/conor-mcgregor-wants-in-on-white-house-ufc-fight-i-would-be-honored\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most high-profile events<\/a> in many years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Or, more likely, neither man will be on the card given their recent track record. Jones still has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/11\/24465675\/jon-jones-hit-with-new-charge-over-alleged-hit-and-run-case-from-february\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pending criminal charges<\/a> to deal with, after all. Still, the update better than nothing, and UFC would love to have one or both of its biggest stars back in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones\u2019 short-lived UFC retirement is officially over. As of Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, Jones\u2019 name has officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-54175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54175","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=54175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}