Kelvin Gastelum paid a heavy price for his in-competition positive drug test for marijuana following his win over Vitor Belfort in Brazil in March. The bout has been flipped to a No Contest, and the subsequent provisional suspension forced him out of a high-profile bout with Anderson Silva at UFC 212. But it turns out that the actual suspension handed down by USADA wasn’t very lengthy at all.
In a statement from USADA today, they announced that Gastelum had been suspended for three months. It was originally six months, but it was cut in half after the TUF 17 winner completed an “approved drug awareness and management program”.