Jessica Penne has less than one week to raise enough funds for arbitration in her second USADA case.
The onetime UFC strawweight title challenger has asked for the public’s help to raise $40,000 so she can fight a second anti-doping case, which stems from a positive drug test that canceled her return this past April.
Penne, 37, has until Feb. 10 to decide whether she’ll take her case to arbitration, and the GoFundMe money will cover legal fees. At the time of this writing, she’s raised $7,430.
If she can’t raise enough money, Butler said Penne is likely to receive a four-year ban – the standard suspension for many second-time offenders – and effectively will be retired from the sport.