United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and Ultimate Fighting Championship signed a deal to help clean the sport of mixed martial arts and rid the octagon of performance enhancing drugs. Fighters who are on the active UFC roster are subjected to random drug tests at any time of the day and 2016 saw some of the biggest names in the sport get tested upwards of fifteen times.
USADA and UFC have shown no favoritism with the results they’ve been getting as they pulled Jon Jones off the card at “UFC 200” for a violation. Check out the list of names that got tested the most in 2016 (via. USADA)
Fighters Tested 11 Times:
Conor McGregor
Amanda Nunes
Cain Velasquez
Cody Garbrandt
Cristiane Justino
Dan Henderson
Daniel Cormier
Fabricio Werdum
Michael Bisping
Yoel Romero
Stipe Miocic
Vitor Belfort
Fighters Tested 12 Times:
Tyron Woodley
Stephen Thompson
Miesha Tate (Retired)
Fighters Tested 13 Times:
Josh Barnett
Johny Hendricks
Fighters Tested 14 Times:
Eddie Alvarez
Dominick Cruz
Fighters Tested 15 Times:
Anderson Silva
* Brock Lesnar was tested just 8 times in 2016.
