WSOF light heavyweight contender, Vinny Magalhaes details a scary story of how a physician in Brazil gave him and another fighter a bacterial infection while administering a post-weigh-in IV.
With the UFC and USADA partnership in full effect, multiple changes have been made to the drug testing guidelines, and one of the biggest stories to come out of the new anti-doping program is the IV re-hydration ban, which went into effect officially on October 1, 2015. While the regulations are confined to the UFC currently, there are some athletes from other organizations that have also begun taking steps to better prepare for their weight cuts without the use of IVs, just in case the changes are adopted sport-wide.