Fans won’t get to see budding prospect Sean O’Malley fight Jose Quinonez this weekend, as the 23-year-old has been forced from UFC 229 after failing a drug test.
That’s according to O’Malley’s Instagram, where the bantamweight talent posted that he had flagged for a potential anti-doping violation after testing positive for a banned substance.
O’Malley broke the news on social media because of USADA’s new policy. The anti-doping agency will no longer publicize potential anti-doping violations until cases have been fully investigated and resolved. This is to protect potentially innocent fighters from negative backlash.
‘Sugar’ states that he never had any intention of cheating and hopes to get the issue resolved as soon as possible.