Elias Theodorou is scheduled to meet Eryk Anders at UFC 231 next month, but “The Spartan” has a bigger fight in front of him.
Theodorou is working towards getting a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for medical cannabis from USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner. The Canadian middleweight first revealed his intentions to TSN last month.
Unbeknownst to most, Theodorou has been advocating for medical cannabis and privately working with USADA for a year and a half. He decided to make his fight public once cannabis was legalized in Canada in October.
“I really feel that with Canada’s historic move of ending prohibition for our country has removed the need for me to hide in the shadows of what I’m doing,” Theodorou told Bloody Elbow.