Jones loses appeal, to serve doping ban

UFC interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will serve a doping ban until next July after an arbitration panel denied his appeal. Jones was pulled from a July bout against Daniel Cormier after the positive drug test. Jones claimed to have taken a sexual-enhancement pill but ended up testing positive for two banned anti-estrogen agents. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency declared Jones ineligible. The arbitration panel said Jones’ “degree of fault verged on the reckless.”