{"id":200619,"date":"2025-10-09T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:20:04","slug":"conor-mcgregor-dodging-ufc-drug-tests-very-similar-to-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200619\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor dodging UFC drug tests \u2018very similar\u2019 to Jon Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s because the former UFC middleweight title challenger, who also made a play for light heavyweight gold, is a reformed \u201cscumbag\u201d who knows the ins and outs of gaming the system<\/a>. Not surprisingly, Sonnen is familiar with the playbook of former UFC two-division champion Conor McGregor, recently suspended for a trio of Whereabouts Violations<\/a> under the promotion\u2019s current drug testing policy.<\/p>\n

Fighters enrolled in the Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) program must be accessible for on-the-spot drug testing at a moment\u2019s notice. In summer of 2024, McGregor failed to provide his whereabouts \u2014 or submit to drug testing \u2014 on three separate occasions within a four-month period, resulting in an 18-month suspension<\/a> (reduced from 24 months) that ends in March 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery dog gets one bite,\u201d Sonnen said on YouTube<\/a>. \u201cEverybody gets a pass. It\u2019s quite literally the reason why they give you three strikes in a calendar year. Everybody\u2019s allowed to be wrong. Everybody\u2019s allowed to be heavy sleeper, just for example. Maybe they come at some part of the day \u2014 whatever the excuse might be, you don\u2019t even need to share it. Three is kind of a lot in a 12-month period when your one and only job is to tell them where you are. That\u2019s all that you\u2019re being accused of. You\u2019re not being accused of a substance here, you\u2019re not being accused of anything other than clerically, administratively. Three times in a 12-month period you did not tell us where you were. And for somebody that has as elaborate of a team, I believe they did tell you where they were. I believe the agents were at the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis very thing happened with the notorious story of Jon Jones in the ring,\u201c Sonnen added. \u201dThat\u2019s a completely true story. They had showed up to where he said that he was, he was not ready for a test, and he went under the ring. That\u2019s a very true story, it\u2019s not folklore. And my vision of what happened here with Conor is something very similar. I\u2019m guessing, but I\u2019m just telling you I believe having this lived this life, I believe they did have his whereabouts. I believe it was accurately updated. I believe he did purposefully not allow them to test him. That\u2019s my belief. I\u2019m not overly upset about it. I\u2019m not overly pointing the finger at Conor. I\u2019m sharing, as a fellow scumbag, some of the psychology that goes in to living that life and trying to stay one step ahead. It\u2019s a great gig until it\u2019s up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s because the former UFC middleweight title challenger, who also made a play for light heavyweight gold, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,98879,702],"class_list":["post-200619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}