Ruslan Magomedov Receives Lifetime Ban from UFC Following Multiple USADA Violations
Heavyweight Ruslan Magomedov has been handed a lifetime ban from the UFC due to multiple anti-doping violations.
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Magomedov previously tested positive for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator designed to help muscle growth, in September 2016. That resulted in a two-year sanction that would have ended on Sept. 26, 2018.
The 32-year-old Magomedov has won nine fights in a row but hasn’t
competed since October 2015, when he earned a unanimous decision
over Shawn
Jordan at UFC 192. The Fight Club Berkut representative also
owns wins over the likes of Josh
Copeland, Tim Sylvia and
Ricco
Rodriguez. He is 14-1 overall the course of a professional
career that began in 2010.
The full statement from USADA regarding Magomedov is as follows:
USADA announced today that Ruslan Magomedov, of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, has received a lifetime sanction after his second and third violations of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy.
Magomedov, 32, received a second violation after he tested positive for methyltestosterone metabolite 17α-methyl-5β-androstan-3α, 17β-diol, as well as stanozolol metabolites 3’-hydroxystanozolol-O-glucuronide, 16β-hydroxystanozolol-O-glucuronide, and stanozolol-N-glucuronide, as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he provided on October 10, 2018. Methyltestosterone and stanozolol are non-Specified Substances 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 (WADA) Prohibited List.
The athlete’s third violation resulted from his refusal to complete the sample collection process as requested by a doping control officer during an out-of-competition test on February 5, 2019. Refusing or failing to submit to sample collection, without compelling justification, is a doping violation under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy.
Magomedov’s lifetime period of ineligibility began on November 5, 2018, the date his provisional suspension was imposed.
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