{"id":320487,"date":"2019-07-26T06:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320487"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:57:36","slug":"ufc-240-loses-undercard-fight-due-to-failed-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-240-loses-undercard-fight-due-to-failed-drug-test\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 240 loses undercard fight due to failed drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you tuned in for the UFC 240 <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-240-weigh-in-results\/\">weigh-ins<\/a>, you may have noticed that Alberta&#8217;s own Tanner Boser was absent. That&#8217;s because his opponent Giacomo Lemos reportedly failed a last-minute drug test and was pulled from the card.<\/p>\n<p>Boser claims Lemos&#8217; withdrawal was so down-to-the-wire that the UFC could not find him a replacement opponent for UFC 240. Considering he was set to make his long-awaited UFC debut in his hometown, it&#8217;s understandable that he&#8217;s not happy. To add insult to injury, Boser will apparently only get his show money and his Reebok sponsorship money \u2014 not his win bonus.<\/p>\n<p>A fired up Tanner Boser announced this unfortunate news on his Facebook account (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/7\/26\/8931611\/tanner-boser-slams-bitch-made-opponent-giacomo-lemos-scratched-ufc-240-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"EhWPXwFA\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bulldozerboser\/posts\/2377005432618944\" data-width=\"500\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/1480001028986060\/posts\/2377005432618944\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>I am absolutely devastated to learn that I will not be fighting in two days at UFC 240.  My bitch made opponent Giacomo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/bulldozerboser\">Tanner &#039;The Bulldozer&#039; Boser<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/1480001028986060\/posts\/2377005432618944\/\">Thursday, July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"A8GNeu\">\u201cI am absolutely devastated to learn that I will not be fighting in two days at UFC 240,\u201d Boser wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bulldozerboser\/posts\/2377005432618944\">social media<\/a>. \u201cMy bitch made opponent Giacomo Lemos tested positive for a banned substance and it is too late to find a replacement as weigh ins are tomorrow morning. I thought it was strange that Lemos wouldn\u2019t make eye contact with me at all whenever I saw him at the hotel. I know now that it\u2019s because he\u2019s a coward. UFC has told me that they will get me on a future card as soon as they can. I am so so sorry to all my friends and family who paid good money for tickets to come out and watch my UFC debut. I am beyond bummed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tanner Boser (16-5-1) has long stood out as one of Canada&#8217;s premier heavyweights, having previously bested names like Chase Gormley, DJ Linderman, Rakim Cleveland, Tony Lopez, and the late Tim Hague. His debut at UFC 240 felt like a long time coming, but unfortunately it will have to wait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 7\/26\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you tuned in for the UFC 240 weigh-ins, you may have noticed that Alberta&#8217;s own Tanner Boser was absent. That&#8217;s because his opponent Giacomo Lemos reportedly failed a last-minute drug test and was pulled from the card. Boser claims Lemos&#8217; withdrawal was so down-to-the-wire that the UFC could not find him a replacement opponent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":320492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[52176,39610,47273],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC 240 loses undercard fight due to failed drug test | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC 240 has lost an undercard fight as Giacomo Lemos has failed a drug test and withdrawn from his scheduled fight with Tanner Boser.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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