Aljamain Sterling is set to defend his bantamweight title against T.J. Dillashaw at UFC 280 on October 22nd. And while both men are extensively tested by USADA under a program designed to weed out performance enhancing drug users, Sterling believes Dillashaw is still cheating.<\/p>\n
Dillashaw was famously stripped of his 135 pound title after testing positive for EPO, an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent that increases the amount of red blood cells in your body, improving stamina and performance. T.J. was suspended for two years<\/a> over his EPO use, but Aljamain Sterling recently pointed out it wasn’t USADA that caught him.<\/p>\n “I mean, we are tested so carefully,” Sterling said in an interview with Yahoo! Sports. “For how many years he didn’t get caught? He got caught by the New York State Athletic Commission. There’s a big difference from getting caught from USADA.”<\/p>\n “USADA’s thing was that testing for EPO was too expensive,” he continued. “This whole time, I thought they tested for everything. They were pretty much only testing for steroids. So there’s no guarantee that this guy’s been doing it the right way ever.”<\/p>\n