Colby Covington says the longstanding beef between him and Jon Jones was fueled by testosterone — and not the good ol’ fashioned natural kind.
Covington and Jones were former roommates while wrestling for Iowa Center Community College, and Colby claims their time together was all good … until Jones started taking steroids to bulk up. Things quickly went sideways from there as “Bones” allegedly started raging out.
Colby laid out the story during a new interview with Daniel Cormier.
“It wasn’t until my
last year in college when he started using testosterone,” he said (via MMAWeekly). “Because he wanted to beef up from 197 to heavyweight. So his plan was like, ‘Hey, let’s just start doing a bunch of testosterone to get strength and get bigger.’ That’s when his mood swings started going all over the place.”
“He started yelling at me for little s–t. Like, I’d leave my shoes up front by the door. ‘What the f–k Colby? Why are your shoes by the door? I almost tripped on them.’ Freaking out, making a big deal out of something. I’m being real. That’s the honest truth.”
“He would freak out about little s–t that didn’t matter just because he was having mood swings from all the chemicals and the steroids he was putting in his body. That’s facts. No one can dispute that. He failed two or three steroid tests. The guy’s a cheater, bro. He was doing it in college because he wanted to bulk up to heavyweight. He didn’t want to go 197 anymore.”
Jones has failed multiple tests and never provided particularly convincing excuses as to why. He blamed one drug test failure on tainted erection medication, but the person who gave him the ‘boner pills’ ordered them alongside clomiphene, the PED Jones was caught using.
Then there was the pulsing picograms of Turinabol metabolite that showed up in Jones’ system. A lot of work went into explaining how tiny traces of metabolites can show up in an athlete’s system … not so much explanation for how those metabolites got there in the first place.
Those are the facts. Colby Covington’s story about Jon Jones in community college? That’s more hearsay, and despite what “Chaos” says, that story can definitely be disputed.
