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UFC Featherweight Contender Chad Mendes Breaks Silence, Owns Failed USADA Drug Test

UFC Featherweight Contender Chad Mendes Breaks Silence, Owns Failed USADA Drug Test

UFC featherweight title contender Chad Mendes was notified by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition drug test on June 10. The 145-pound contender made a public statement for the first time about the flagged test result on Monday via Twitter.

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The standard suspension for the first time testing positive to a banned substance is two years. The length of the suspension can and has been reduced when fighters are able to provide evidence that their positive test result was due to a tainted supplement.

What Mendes tested positive to remains unknown, but his comment that he should have done his ‘homework' suggests that it was something categorized as a performance enhancer.

Mendes last competed in December, losing to Frankie Edgar by knockout. If he's given a two-year suspension, he'll be 33-years-old when he returns in 2018.

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