With a favorable arbitration result, did UFC heavyweight Josh Barnett expose some of the flaws with USADA’s anti-doping efforts? MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes and retired UFC and WEC fighter Danny Downes discuss. Fowlkes: So it turns out Josh Barnett did not knowingly or willfully take the Ostarine that caused his most recent drug test failure. Such is the finding of an arbitrator , who agreed that the culprit was a tainted supplement. But unlike other fighters who successfully argued a similar defense and accepted a short USADA suspension anyway, Barnett refused to agree with USADA’s assessment that he should take an 18-month ban, and the arbitrator sided with Barnett, giving him no punishment beyond a “reprimand.” All it cost him was a bunch of money and time.
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Trading Shots: Should Josh Barnett’s case make us rethink USADA in the UFC? – MMA Junkie