UFC Flyweight Alibi Idiris has been suspended one year for a banned substance and his UFC Houston win over Ode Osbourne has been overturned to a no-contest.
Idiris accepted the one-year ban after failing an in-competition test submitted to Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD) on Feb. 21. Idiris tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, a prohibited diuretic in the Diuretics and Masking Agents class of substances on the UFC Prohibited List. It is known as a water pill that is used to treat high blood pressure. It is known as a diuretic which one can assume helps with the weight-cutting process.
Notably, he did take it on Thursday of fight week in order to make the contracted weight. While he was cooperative during the process, CSAD did not reduce the penalty due to the severity of the use of the drug to make weight.
Upon notification of this adverse finding, Idiris has been fully cooperative with CSAD. Idiris provided information that he took a product that contained hydrochlorothiazide on Thursday of fight week to help him make the contracted weight on Friday, February 20, 2026, at the event’s official weigh in. Although Idiris has been fully cooperative with CSAD, CSAD is not suspending or reducing any period of his ineligibility due to the seriousness of knowingly using a diuretic during fight week and the advantage that he received in making his contracted weight. Idiris’s suspension began on February 21, 2026, the day he provided his adverse, in-competition biological sample. His suspension will terminate on February 21, 2027.
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