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The commissioner opened by telling Jon Jones that if the commission had decided to strictly follow the book on their regulations, then this hearing wouldn't be happening and "your career would be over." He would have been looking at a suspension between 18 months and life, and it would have been closer to life.

The reason they didn't do that is because experts who they trust (presumably from USADA and maybe elsewhere) were telling them that the metabolites could have plausibly been a residual from the prior violation. They didn't think they had enough time to figure it out and let him fight in Nevada, but they weren't going to stand in the way of California.

Jones and his lawyer brought two doctors who will presumably tell the AC that this "pulsing" thing we've been laughing at is totally a thing that can happen, and a USADA doctor is also there.