Former UFC lightweight Alex Gorgees has accepted a 16-month suspension from the United States Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for metabolites of a pair of banned substances, per a release Friday.
The 23-year-old Australian failed an in-competition drug test that was submitted on Dec. 2, 2018, in relation to his UFC debut against Damir Ismagulov at UFC Adelaide. Gorgee’s urine samplers came in positive for a metabolite of drostanolone and a long-term metabolite of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT), non-specified substances that are prohibited year-round under UFC Anti-Doping policy.
In further tests, Gorgees continued to test positive for both metabolites after providing samples on Dec.