Junior dos Santos has been a proponent of USADA ever since the agency began leading the UFC’s anti-doping program in 2015. He never envisioned a scenario where he’d be on the other side of things — trying to prove he was a clean athlete when he always knew he was.
Dos Santos received a reduced, six-month suspension last month after testing positive for a banned substance stemming from a sample collected in August. The Brazilian fighter was the victim, along with countrymen Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Marcos Rogerio de Lima, of a Brazilian pharmacy that was producing contaminated supplements, a USADA investigation found.