Holly Holm: Jon Jones doping case has not been distraction in gym

LOS ANGELES — Holly Holm flew to Las Vegas two days before UFC 200. She went there to train with her coaches, who were in town cornering fighters. But the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion also would have watched her teammate and friend Jon Jones face Daniel Cormier in the UFC 200 had the fight gone down.

On July 6, the UFC announced that Jones had been pulled from the main event title fight due to a failed out-of-competition drug test. Holm said she was on a run in the Las Vegas heat when Jones addressed the media the morning of July 7. She didn’t watch.

“I don’t really like to focus on a lot of negative media,” Holm said at a media lunch this week. “No offense, but I don’t read a lot of media. I really don’t.”

It’s hard to really blame her, especially in this instance. Holm has a huge main event fight of her own Saturday against Valentina Shevchenko at UFC on FOX 20 in Chicago. A victory will put her …

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