UFC welterweight Nick Diaz on Monday was issued a five-year suspension from mixed martial arts by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
The punishment stems from Diaz’s failed post-fight drug test at UFC 183, which took place Jan. 31 in Las Vegas. The show’s main event saw Diaz suffer a five-round unanimous decision loss to former middleweight king Anderson Silva, who tested positive for steroids and was suspended for one year by the NAC.
In addition to the five-year ban, Diaz was hit with a maximum 30-percent fine of his $500,000 fight purse -- a penalty of approximately $165,000 -- and ordered to repay unspecified costs associated with the hearing.