The 30-year-old last fought at UFC 214 on July 29, where he knocked out Daniel Cormier to claim the light heavyweight championship belt. This decision was overturned to a “no-contest” on Sept. 13, as Jones allegedly tested positive for Turinabol in a sample he provided after the weigh-ins at UFC 214. As a result of the decision, Jones was stripped of the title.
Kawa recently spoke with Luke Thomas on his radio show SiriusXM about a number of topics, including the Jones controversy and gave his opinion when he’ll return to the Octagon:
“If USADA is a respectable organization, which I think that they are, and they take all the information they compiled, all the interviews that they’ve done and all the things they’ve seen, they know for a fact that Jon Jones was not cheating and he was not intentionally taking any type of substance.
I think they know that and everybody can come to that conclusion based on the circumstances of his situation. That’s the most I am going to say at this point because obviously it’s ongoing. I’d like to say [that there’s] about a 95 percent chance [he fights in 2018].”