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The highly anticipate rematch between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier that was scheduled for UFC 200 on Saturday in Las Vegas is off now after Jones failed a drug test in June.
Jon Jones is out of UFC 200, per Jeff Novitzky. He has been flagged by USADA stemming from a test on 6/16.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
White: this is the way it should be. We have the best (drug-testing) program in all of sports.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
White has not disclosed what the banned substance that came up was.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
White: Jones might get two years for this (via USADA).
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
White's final words: "this sucks. This is unfortunate."
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
UFC just announced that the new main event for UFC 200 is Brock Lesnar vs Mark Hunt
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) July 7, 2016
This a huge blow to the organization that was hoping to sell more than 2 million ppv buys for the event.