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T.J. Dillashaw seemed headed for greatness. Turns out, he was too good to be true.

It took barely over three weeks from the time T.J. Dillashaw revealed he’d failed a post-fight drug test to his acceptance of the penalty, a two-year ban from competition. In the end, there was really nothing to contest, even after he initially told his fans in an Instagram post that “I’m working with my team to understand what has occurred.”

The thing is, the evidence shows that Dillashaw knew all along what had occurred: he was blatantly cheating. Not only did Dillashaw test positive for recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) in a urine sample he provided on Jan.