Valerie Letourneau won't have her most influential teammate in her corner for the biggest fight of her life, and she's clearly not happy about it.
The title challenger will go into her bout with women's strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 193 on Saturday in Melbourne, Australia without Hector Lombard by her side. Lombard was suspended for one year by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC), retroactive to January, for testing positive for a designer steroid. Under the rules of the UFC's new anti-doping policy run by USADA, an athlete is not allowed to have someone currently under sanctions to be in his or her corner during a fight.