Hector Lombard Quick, let’s make a list before someone else fails a drug test and the list changes. To keep it manageable, let us confine ourselves to the failures we learned of in the past seven days. That list goes like this: Anderson Silva , Nick Diaz , Jon Fitch , Hector Lombard . If we wanted to stretch back even farther, we could include UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones (who, like Diaz , at least had the decency to pop positive for a recreational drug rather than a strictly performance-enhancing one), as well as Ashlee Evans-Smith (who reportedly tested positive for a banned diuretic ). If we wanted to find a UFC pay-per-view event where no one failed a drug test, we’d have to go back to UFC 180 in November, though we’d also have to admit that, with that event taking place in Mexico City, we can’t even be sure what kind of testing took place, or whether it was in any way reliable. Are you starting to get a sense now for why the UFC might have scrapped plans to run its own extensive, out-of-competition testing program
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