Anthony Pettis had to deal with some adversity just hours before his Nate Diaz fight at UFC 241. Pettis (22-9 MMA, 9-8 UFC), the former UFC lightweight champion, told ESPN on Monday that he suffered a cut on his right thumb while attempting to close a glass bottle that contained a urine sample requested by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency just over an hour before he made the walk against Diaz. “It was a perfect training camp, and then we go to the fight, I walk behind the scenes, USADA comes up like, ‘Hey, we need you to do a piss test for your drug test,’” Pettis said during an “Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show” interview.
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