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Both Carlos Condit and Thiago Alves open to further drug testing ahead of UFC Fight Night 67 main event
Apr 16, 2015 - 12:40:32 PM Both Carlos Condit and Thiago Alves open to further drug testing ahead of UFC Fight Night 67 main event

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission is planning to follow the UFC in implementing out of competition testing for UFC events in their country.

Though nothing's been said explicitly to next month's UFC Fight Night 67 headliners, but according to comments made to MMAFighting.com, both Carlos Condit and Thiago Alves are on board if that's what the commission wants to do.

"They haven't told me anything in particular, but I think it's great that they are doing it," Condit said. "I love the sport and I would hate to see it wrecked by steroids and performance enhancing drugs. I'm all for it. Test me. I'm 100 percent a clean athlete. I'm happy that they are doing it."

"Nobody told me anything, but that's part of the job," Alves added. "I will be ready, and I'm sure Condit will be too."

Penick's Analysis: For the sake of a clean sport it's positive to see guys welcoming further testing. Whether any testing is actually done here remains to be seen, but it's something that's going to start being implemented more frequently by the UFC in just a few months anyway. Both need to be clean to advance into the title picture as they'd like to do, because getting caught along the way would completely derail them.

[Carlos Condit art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]