Wanderlei Silva ‘s longtime disciplinary case before the Nevada Athletic Commission came to a conclusion on Wednesday. The commission reduced Silva’s suspension to three years and erased the $70,000 fine levied against him. Silva was initially handed a lifetime ban and a $70,000 fine by the commission for evading a random drug test prior to a planned bout with Chael Sonnen at UFC 175 in the summer of 2014. Believing the punishment was heavy handed, Silva’s legal team took the matter before the courts. The commission was ordered by a Nevada district court judge to reconsider the penalties, ruling the commission’s initial sanctions were “in excess of the statutory authority of the agency.” Silva‘s re-hearing was initially supposed to have taken place in October of last year, but was pushed back from one month’s meeting to the next until finally be addressed on Wednesday. Following a briefing of the cases details, Nevada Deputy Attorney General Caroline Bateman gave the commission some guidance as to what might be considered more acceptable punishment for Silva evading a drug test.
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