Alexander Shlemenko Alexander Shlemenko has filed a lawsuit against the California State Athletic Commission following his three-year suspension and $10,000 fine for a failed post-fight drug test after his Bellator 133 knockout of Melvin Manhoef. The punishment – especially the three-year suspension – was the harshest penalty the commission has handed a fighter since it began regulating MMA in 2006. Shlemenko (51-9 MMA, 11-3 BMMA) tested positive for the steroid oxandrolone and oxandrolone metabolites as well as a testosterone-to-epitestosterone (T/E) ratio of 50-1 (the commission’s limit is 4-1). When contacted today by MMAjunkie, CSAC Executive Director Andy Foster said he had just received word of the lawsuit and was still looking into it. The basis of the suit, which was filed in Los Angeles on Aug. 28, is that CSAC officials failed to give proper notice of the type of hearing and sanctions they were seeking, failed to act consistently with previous situations involving failed drug tests, and applied penalties that the commission had not formally adopted as rules
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Bellator’s Alexander Shlemenko sues CSAC over PED-related suspension and fine – MMA Junkie