{"id":172585,"date":"2015-10-22T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=172585"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:39:35","slug":"chris-weidman-randomly-drug-tested-ahead-of-ufc-194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chris-weidman-randomly-drug-tested-ahead-of-ufc-194\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman randomly drug tested ahead of UFC 194"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that the number of random drug tests are increasing in an effort to clean up the sport of MMA.  Just yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/cathal-pendred-randomly-drug-tested-by-usada\/\">Cathal Pendred was randomly drug tested ahead of his &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Dublin&#8217; bout this Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman revealed via Twitter that he too has been randomly drug tested.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just got randomly drug tested this morning! Love the direction this sport is heading. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleanathletes?src=hash\">#cleanathletes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Weidman (@ChrisWeidmanUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisWeidmanUFC\/status\/657162376974856192\">October 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Weidman is currently preparing for his UFC 194 title defense against Luke Rockhold on December 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that the number of random drug tests are increasing in an effort to clean up the sport of MMA. Just yesterday Cathal Pendred was randomly drug tested ahead of his &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Dublin&#8217; bout this Saturday. 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