Russian light heavyweight Ivan Shtyrkov has been suspended for two years by USADA following a failed drug test taken prior to his scheduled UFC debut earlier this year.
USADA officials announced the news on Tuesday.
“Shtyrkov, 31, who was added to the UFC roster in the middle of March, had two out-of-competition urine samples collected on March 27, 2019 and April 3, 2019 reported as atypical shortly before he was scheduled to compete in a UFC bout,” USADA officials wrote in a statement.
“USADA notified the UFC of the laboratory’s initial atypical findings, and out of an abundance of caution, the UFC removed Shtyrkov from the card in which he was scheduled to compete.