{"id":181064,"date":"2015-12-30T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=181064"},"modified":"2015-12-30T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:44:44","slug":"anderson-silva-on-failed-drug-test-im-not-a-saint-but-i-never-cheated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anderson-silva-on-failed-drug-test-im-not-a-saint-but-i-never-cheated\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva on failed drug test: I&#8217;m not a saint, but I never cheated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Anderson Silva has been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/anderson-silva-officialy-set-to-return-on-february-27th\/\">booked to fight Michael Bisping at UFC Fight Night London on February 27th<\/a>, his failed drug test has been brought into question once again.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement of the bout, Bisping <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/michael-bisping-throws-the-first-jab-at-anderson-silva\/\">took to Twitter to lob a verbal jab at &#8216;The Spider&#8217;<\/a>, suggesting that he leave the viagra out of this training camp.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-silva-vs-bisping-conference-call\/\">UFC Fight Night London media conference call,<\/a> Silva spoke about the failed drug test, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI committed an error. I\u2019m definitely not a saint. I committed an error. I took a substance that was contaminated,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a supplement that was contaminated. Inside the octagon, there\u2019s no way to really lie in this sport. I\u2019ve been fighting my whole career and never tested positive,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conscience is clear.  I never purposely ever took any banned substance. I made an error by taking a substance that was contaminated, but my conscience is clean. I know that I\u2019ve never cheated.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Anderson Silva has been booked to fight Michael Bisping at UFC Fight Night London on February 27th, his failed drug test has been brought into question once again. 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