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"Most likely, the first battle will take place in June. If all goes well: with health, with workouts, with a rival. As they say, if all the stars converge. Specifically, about the opponent, I still do not know anything, maybe the manager knows.
Negotiations with the UFC were not long, my managers know their work. Communicated exactly as I thought: to subscribe at all or not. It depended on how my fights with Fabio Maldonado and Tiago Silva would go. There were no specific conditions from the UFC, but I had agreements with the RCC that I had to hold two fights by the end of 2018.
When you sign a general contract with the UFC, they do not check for doping. They check when an agreement is signed for a specific fight, when there is a date. In general, doping control is already after you register on the official website of the USADA. Now they can come any day and take the samples they need. But I am not afraid of anything, ”journalist Alexey Safonov quotes Ivan Shtyrkova."
https://mmaboxing.ru/news/news-mma/Ivan-Shtyrkov-Ya-ne-boyus-doping-kontrolya-43325.html