Filed under: Bellator , Featured , News , Videos In a 7-0 vote, the California State Athletic Commission today suspended ex-Bellator middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko for three years, fined him $10,000, and overturned his knockout win over Melvin Manhoef at Bellator 133. “Our job here is to protect the fighters, period,” said CSAC commissioner John Frierson during a hearing today in Los Angeles. “The guy that he knocked out, he could have killed him.” The CSAC this past week recommended the penalty, by far the harshest punishment of an MMA athlete since it started regulating the sport, when it found steroid oxandrolone and oxandrolone metabolites as well as a testosterone-to-epitestosterone (T/E) ratio of 50-1 in Shlemenko’s post-fight urine test. Shlemenko’s attorney, Howard Jacobs, who’s represented several MMA fighter accused of doping violations, argued the commission should throw out the sanctions, proposed by CSAC Executive Director Andy Foster, because it didn’t collect a “B” sample from Shlemenko’s urine at the Feb. 13 event at Save Mart Center in Fresno, Calif. Jacobs also accused the commission of violating an agreement with its official testing laboratory, the WADA-accredited UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory in Los Angeles, when it didn’t split the urine sample into an “A” and “B” sample.
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Alexander Shlemenko suspended three years, fined $10,000, KO of Manhoef overturned – MMA Junkie