Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been suspended for one year by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, retroactive to July 6, 2016, after testing positive for a banned substance prior to his UFC 200 bout with Daniel Cormier.

A three-member arbitration panel made the decision and the USADA announced their findings in a release Monday. The panel decided Jones "should receive the maximum one-year period of ineligibility for his anti-doping policy violation," after a review of the evidence on Oct. 31.

The 29-year-old Rochester, NY native tested positive for banned substances clomiphene and letrozole in an out of competition urine test on June 16. He was pulled from the light heavyweight unification bout days before UFC 200.

Jones claimed he received what he thought were Cialis pills from a teammate, however the pills turned out to be a different form of Tadalafil - a drug used to treat erectile dysfuntionc - and banned substances were present. 

Arbitrators ruled that despite his recklessness in unknowlingly taking a banned substance, they felt he was not "a drug cheat."