Sports fans – particularly combat sports fans – can be unforgiving towards PED users. Whether you’ve been accused or there’s concrete proof, you can pretty much consider yourself persona non grata among your audience once you’ve tested positive for a banned substance.
Former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw knows this all too well. After popping for EPO in 2019 that ultimately cost him his title, the 35-year-old admitted he felt the “karma” of his actions for a long time.
But these days, Dillashaw is showing he can turn over a new leaf. In USADA’s list of most-tested UFC fighters for 2021 (via MMA Junkie), T.