This episode of The Legal Submission I discuss this week’s arbitrator ruling for Gilbert Melendez. The arbitrator believed that the policy reasons behind the UFC Anti-Doping Policy superseded the mistake in not letting Melendez know that he had been released by the organization. Dilletaunt · The Legal Submission Episode 7
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Melendez handed 2-year sanction despite taking USADA test after being terminated by UFC
Former Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez was issued a two-year sanction from USADA after an arbitrator ruled that Melendez was under the jurisdiction of the testing organization despite being cut by the UFC 4 days prior. The 37-year-old Melendez argued that USADA no longer retained jurisdiction over him. The arbitrator decided in a July 7th […]
Lyman Good lawsuit for tainted supplement dismissed by court
Lyman Good’s lawsuit against the manufacturers and distributors of a supplement he claimed caused him to fail a USADA drug test has been dismissed by a New York District Court Judge. The court dismissed the lawsuit which claimed that a dietary supplement was tainted with a banned substance. Memo and Opinion by MMA Payout on […]
Allegations of tainted meat fail at USADA arbitration for Bruno Silva
Brazil’s Bruno Arruda da Silva has been suspended for two-years from the UFC after a USADA arbitration opinion issued on Monday declared that Silva had tested positive for the banned substance of boldenone. Despite Silva’s defense that he was set to make his UFC debut on short notice and that the banned substance was ingested […]
Rachael Ostovich-Berdon handed one-year USADA sanction for tainted supplement
Rachael Ostovich-Berdon was issued a one-year suspension by USADA for testing positive for ostarine and GW1516 metabolites. She received a four-month credit due to “time served under a provisional suspension in the latter half of 2019 for atypical finding that was investigated by USADA and which did not result in a sanction once the 2019 […]