{"id":284754,"date":"2018-09-11T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=284754"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:42:06","slug":"fabricio-werdum-dealt-two-year-suspension-from-usada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/fabricio-werdum\/fabricio-werdum-dealt-two-year-suspension-from-usada\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricio Werdum dealt two year suspension from USADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another former champion recently fell victim to good ol&#8217; USADA. This time it was a heavyweight legend and Brazilian icon.<\/p>\n<p>That man being none other than Fabricio Werdum.<\/p>\n<p>Werdum was initially supposed to be one half of this weekend&#8217;s UFC Moscow headliner but was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/fabricio-werdum\/breaking-fabricio-werdum-informed-of-potential-anti-doping-violation-by-usada\/\">notified that he had tested positive<\/a> just a day after the fight with Alexey Oleynik had been made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.usada.org\/fabricio-werdum-receives-doping-sanction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USADA<\/a>\u00a0has now come down with the suspension for Werdum which will be for a two-year period as stated in the official release below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;USADA announced today that UFC\u00ae athlete Fabricio Werdum, of Redondo Beach, Calif., has tested positive for a prohibited substance and received a two-year sanction for his anti-doping policy violation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Werdum, 41, tested positive for trenbolone and its metabolite epitrenbolone following an out-of-competition urine test conducted on April 25, 2018. Trenbolone is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, which has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Werdum\u2019s two-year period of ineligibility, the standard sanction for a first offense involving a non-Specified Substance, began on May 22, 2018, the date his provisional suspension was imposed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pursuant to the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, all UFC athletes serving a period of ineligibility for an anti-doping policy violation are required to continue to make themselves available for testing in order to receive credit for time completed under their sanction.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since losing his heavyweight crown to Stipe Miocic in 2016, Werdum has gone 3-2 with his only losses coming to top\u00a0contenders in Alistair Overeem and his last fight with Alexander Volkov.<\/p>\n<p>Already past the age of 40, it will be interesting to see if Werdum will attempt to make a comeback after this suspension is over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 9\/11\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another former champion recently fell victim to good ol&#8217; USADA. 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