“The GOAT for me is Khabib, and I would put Jon Jones in that category, but I can’t,” Mendez told The Ahmad Mahmood Show. “If you’re caught doing something you shouldn’t have been doing, how can you be considered at the top of the league? This is a true sport, and in a true sport you cannot put that person ahead. How many people have won Olympic gold medals and then they find out they cheated and got the medals taken away from them?”
“I don’t know that Jon ever took anything that the rest of them didn’t take, but he got caught for it,” Sonnen said on his YouTube channel. “I’m going to have to go with no, Jon Jones failing a PED test makes him not the cleanest fighter of all time, (but) it does not disqualify him from being the greatest fighter of all time.”