Zubaira Tukhugov has been notified of a potential USADA violation as a result from out-of-competition sample collection made on September 7, 2016 and October 29, 2016. As a result, the UFC has removed him from his fight against Tiago Trator on December 9th.
UFC officials are seeking to find a replacement for Trator. Tukhugov was 3-1 in the UFC coming off of a loss to Renato Moicano at UFC 198 this past May.
The UFC issued its standard statement for these type of flagged tests which provisionally suspends fighters.
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Notably, Tukhugov was flagged for 2 tests that were about 6 weeks apart. The 25 year old Featherweight is subject to a two-year suspension although this may be mitigated dependent on the banned substance he may have taken.
Another one bites the dust…
both mma and boxing are really getting on my nerves with all this PED usage, start instituting lifetime bans and that knocks it out