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USADA announced today that UFC® athlete Fabricio Werdum, of Redondo Beach, Calif., has tested positive for a prohibited substance and received a two-year sanction for his anti-doping policy violation.
Werdum, 41, tested positive for trenbolone and its metabolite epitrenbolone following an out-of-competition urine test conducted on April 25, 2018. Trenbolone is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, which has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.
https://ufc.usada.org/fabricio-werdum-receives-doping-sanction/
Werdum had earlier protested his innocence..
https://mmainsight.com/ufc/fabricio-werdum-protests-innocence-after-usada-anti-doping-violation
“The entire UFC staff and I are all working together to solve this problem,” Abdel-Aziz told mmafighting.com. “I’m very confident it will be OK. … It’s a misunderstanding. Something is off. Fabricio did not take anything illegal.”
Now, the 40-year-old Werdum has also spoken out on the matter via a written statement.
“Hey guys, I got up this morning to the news that one of my urine samples from April tested positive for a prohibited substance,” Werdum stated. “I am working with my team, the UFC and USADA to understand what happened. I’ve always been careful with everything I take and I’ve always supported a clean sport. We will work hard to solve this misunderstanding, and I hope soon to be able to go back to the octagon and do what I love.”
Werdum, 41, tested positive for trenbolone and its metabolite epitrenbolone following an out-of-competition urine test conducted on April 25, 2018. Trenbolone is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, which has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.
https://ufc.usada.org/fabricio-werdum-receives-doping-sanction/
Werdum had earlier protested his innocence..
https://mmainsight.com/ufc/fabricio-werdum-protests-innocence-after-usada-anti-doping-violation
“The entire UFC staff and I are all working together to solve this problem,” Abdel-Aziz told mmafighting.com. “I’m very confident it will be OK. … It’s a misunderstanding. Something is off. Fabricio did not take anything illegal.”
Now, the 40-year-old Werdum has also spoken out on the matter via a written statement.
“Hey guys, I got up this morning to the news that one of my urine samples from April tested positive for a prohibited substance,” Werdum stated. “I am working with my team, the UFC and USADA to understand what happened. I’ve always been careful with everything I take and I’ve always supported a clean sport. We will work hard to solve this misunderstanding, and I hope soon to be able to go back to the octagon and do what I love.”
