UFC lightweight Felipe Olivieri is facing a possible UFC Anti-Doping Policy violation for an out-of-competition sample collected prior to his loss to Tony Martin at UFC on Fox 18 on Jan. 30.
The Las Vegas-based promotion released a statement regarding Olivieri’s failed drug test on Friday.
“Although the sample collected from Olivieri following his bout at UFC Fight Night: Johnson vs. Bader on January 30, 2016, was reported as negative for prohibited substances, a sample collected from him in Brazil earlier that month, and analyzed at the WADA accredited laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, was recently reported to USADA as containing a prohibited substance,” the statement read.