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Chael Sonnen responds to being branded ‘one of the worst drug cheats of his era’

Chael Sonnen did a lot of things in his career. He’s an uncrowned WEC champ. He fought for titles in the UFC three times. He made people actually believe that the Nogueira brothers fed carrots to a bus. But he’ll also be remembered for something else - failing drug tests.

After becoming the man who brought TRT into the vocabulary of fans and media, he failed two drug tests in 2014 for a whole variety of different things including EPO and HGH. He served his two-year suspension and signed with Bellator, where he closed out his career with five more fights.