It’s been a rough few months for the UFC’s Azaitar brothers. News that middleweight Abu Azaitar has been suspended by USADA follows just shortly on the heels of his brother, Ottman Azaitar’s release from the promotion. Ottman reportedly ran afoul of the UFC’s COVID-19 restrictions in Abu Dhabi, when he allegedly helped a third party enter the promotion’s ‘bubble’ to deliver a bag to his room. The contents of that bag have not been divulged.
For Abu Azaitar, the UFC’s drug testing partner announced on Monday, February 1st, that the Moroccan-born fighter had agreed to serve a seven-month suspension from MMA competition, the result of several flagged urine samples collected in August and September of 2020.