UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz sounds off on USADA's policy on banning the use of IVs for rehydrating.
In June 2015, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) first brought up their plans to impose a ban on the use of IVs as a method of rehydration.
According to USADA CEO Travis Tygart, the main reason for doing so is to avoid gene doping or homologous blood transfusion, where a fighter could easily take in someone else’s blood, which in turn, gives them oxygen carrying capacity and recovery capacity.
Tygart deemed it as having "game-changing benefits".