USADA
The UFC implemented year round drug testing in 2015 to combat the plague of performance enhancing drug failures that was steadily on the rise. And with a roster of anywhere between 350-500 fighters at any given time, USADA has busted an amount equal to about 10% of the UFC’s roster.
USADA has flagged both UFC newcomer and seasoned veteran without discrimination.
Most notably, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida, Brock Lesnar, Mirko Crop Cop, and Yoel Romero, represent some of the sport’s biggest names in history.
So we thought we’d examine USADA’s database of sanctioned and flagged UFC fighters. However, it does not seem to be as up to date as we had hoped, excluding the likes of Cris Cyborg and Anderson Silva, but it does show the more recently flagged UFC female Jessica Penne.
It’s hard to put an exact tally on the amount of fighters USADA has flagged due to these glaring errors in their database. But presently they’re showing 37 fighters, and we know, based of the exclusions we just mentioned, it’s more than that.
Here’s the complete list:
Jessica Penne
Brandon Moreno
Carlos Felipe
Jesse Taylor
Nick Roehrick
Guido Cannetti
George Sullivan
Kelvin Gastelum
Ricardo, Abreu
Francisco Mir
Justin Ledet
Lyman Good
Matheus Nicolau (Pereira)
Viscardi Andrade
Tom Lawlor
Daniel Omielanczuk
Felipe Olivieri
Brock Lesnar
Carlos Diego Ferreira
Lyoto Machida
George Sullivan
Jon Jones
Adam Hunter
Abdul-Kerim Edilov
Diaz, Nate
Li Jingliang
Augusto Montano
Ning Guangyou
Ricardo Abreu
Islam Makhachev
Chad Mendes
Jay Dee Penn
Tim Means
Diego Brandao
Yoel Romero
Gleison Tibau
Mirko Filipovic
