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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Though January saw a number of drug test failures out of UFC events, fighters on the UFC Fight Night 60, UFC 184, and UFC 185 events all tested negative for any performance enhancing drugs or drugs of abuse.
The events all featured varying levels of tests done based on the commission handling it, with fighters on UFC 184 in Los Angeles getting both blood and urine tests from the California State Athletic Commission. The Texas Department of Regulatory Affairs just administered urine testing to the fighters on the UFC 185 card in Dallas.
Per the report on UFC 184, one sample was sent for additional carbon isotope ratio (CIR) testing after it came back abnormal, but the CIR test found nothing.
Penick's Analysis: It's nice to see clean tests come back, but tests on fight night aren't the ones to typically catch fighters anyway. That said, given Hector Lombard and Anderson Silva's fight night failures, this is an improvement.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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