Nevada Athletic Fee have suspended two former Dana White’s Contender Collection fighters for constructive drug exams.
Darion Abbey has been handed his suspension after testing constructive for clomiphene. The substance is banned throughout a number of fight sports activities and most infamously is the substance that started the Conor Benn debacle on the earth of boxing a number of years in the past.
Abbey’s suspension is 9 months however is backdated so will expire in Might 2026. On Dana White’s Contender Collection he confronted Donte Johnson and suffered a brutal first spherical TKO loss. Sadly, with a file of 7-5 it’s extremely unlikely for Abbey to ever enter the UFC however this suspension greater than doubtless shuts the door indefinitely for the American heavyweight.
Levi Rodrigues Jr additionally competed on Dana White’s Contender Collection and has acquired a suspension after a failed drug take a look at. Rodrigues Jr was initially suspended on twenty sixth November after testing constructive for 19-Norandrosterone, which is a metabolite of the anabolic steroid nandrolone.
The unbeaten Brazilian mild heavyweight gained his bout on Contender Collection and earned himself a contract again in October after a primary spherical knockout versus Freddy Vidal. Nonetheless, this suspension and failed take a look at might jeopardise that UFC alternative. The UFC have handled this substance beforehand in a case with Ricardo Abreu in 2017.
The staff of Rodrigues Jr got here out claiming using the drug was purely for restoration because the Brazilian was struggling severely with debilitating accidents. It’s unclear what lies forward for Rodrigues Jr however his UFC dream may very well be over earlier than it has even begun.
