Last year, UFC fan favorite Nick Diaz violated the terms of USADA’s drug testing protocol by refusing to post his whereabouts for three separate out-of-competition drug tests.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency requires all UFC fighters to provide updates on their whereabouts in order to enforce random drug tests across the board.
“The accumulation of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping policy violation,” according to USADA, which means Diaz suffered an infraction for his failure to comply on three separate occasions in 2017.
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