On Thursday, Jon Jones was pulled from UFC 200 after a PED test was flagged. The interim light heavyweight champion then held a press conference in which he tearfully claimed he never knowingly took a PED, and apologized to all.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell was not impressed.

“Don’t be crying, you know you took something,” said Liddell to Michael Stets for MMAMania. “Really? I mean, ‘Someone slipped it in my drink. It must’ve been one of the supplements I was taking.’ At this level you didn’t check the supplements you were taking and make sure they were cleared? I had my own supplements. I made sure they were cleared. I used to go make sure they were cleared by Nevada State Athletic Commission when I was fighting. I wasn’t taking anything that might jeopardize me getting in trouble for a fight. Crying? You chose to take something. You got caught. Are you crying because you got caught or are you crying because you feel bad? What? I don’t get it. He’s his own worst enemy. He can’t stay out of trouble.”

Chuck Liddell has seen it all, but he said he has never seen a fighter self destruct the way Jones has.

“At his level, no,” said Liddell. “I’ve seen quite a few guys down on the lower end that are very self destructive, but just don’t quite make it to where he made it. He made it to the top and imploded. Maybe he just couldn’t handle it. I don’t know. It’s just one of those things. He needs to reevaluate what he wants to do and either decide to start making the right choices and good choices and try to mount a comeback or just let it go and do something else.”

Liddell was in Vegas to promote the third season of the hit television drama “Kingdom,” which airs Wednesday nights exclusively on AT&T’s Audience Network on DIRECTV and U-verse.*DIRECTV Ch 239 and U-verse Ch 1114

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